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yielding

adjectiveGraduateELO 1,400GRESAT
DEFINITION

inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

WEBSTER'S 1913

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.

ETYMOLOGY

from Old French 'yieldre', to give way

SYNONYMS
IN LITERATURE

He took them one by one, yielding here, discussing there, and holding to his point.

George Meredith, Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
IN USE

With the third wave of feminism, sexual identity and compulsory heterosexuality became a subject of study for anarchists, yielding a post-structuralist critique of sexual normality.

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