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adv. - In an obedient manner.

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Usage examples (19)
  • Adjective : a timid, yielding man. ,a yielding mattress
  • “All right,” he said, looking at her weakly and yieldingly.
  • For what he loved above all, and all along, was art that is yieldingly attentive to the life of its materials and to particular sensations of reality.
  • “A little more — a little more,” said she, petulantly touching his hand with the forefinger, to make him incline the cup more generously and yieldingly.
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