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Docility

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doc·ile  (dsl, -l)
adj.
1. Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
2. Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.
[Latin docilis, from docre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]
docile·ly adv.
do·cili·ty (d-sl-t, d-) n.
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Noun1.docility - the trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable
tractability, tractableness, flexibility - the trait of being easily persuaded
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They would follow me like dogs, rubbing their great snouts against my body in awkward evidence of affection, and respond to my every command with an alacrity and docility which caused the Martian warriors to ascribe to me the possession of some earthly power unknown on Mars.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
It was a spectacle to stir the dullest soul when this gallant band marched out of the yard in full regimentals, with Captain Dove a solemn, big-headed boy of eleven issuing his orders with the gravity of a general, and his Falstaffian regiment obeying them with more docility than skill.
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