yieldingly
English
Adverb
yieldingly (comparative more yieldingly, superlative most yieldingly)
- In a yielding way.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days, New York: Harcourt, published 1974, page 168:
- A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen. Flory reached across and took her other hand. It came yieldingly, willingly.
- 1974, Angela Carter, “The Smile of Winter”, in Fireworks, London: Virago, published 1988, page 44:
- The wet sand is as dark and more yieldingly solid than fudge and waking across a panful is a promenade in the Kingdom of Sweets.
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