flexibleness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLEX'IBLENESS, noun 1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility. 2. Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as the flexibleness of a courtier.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

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