Definition of "unpliant" [unpliant]

• Not pliant. (adjective)

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• ""He is unpliant, self-sequestered, coarse-grained; beyond all conception easy and phlegmatic.""
• "Physically, mentally and morally diseased, weak yet stern, sensitive but unpliant, equally devoid of courage and of tact, he could not come in contact with the world without suffering a shock and swift recoil that drove him back to the refuge of solitude -- to the mute companionship of external Nature or the brooding contemplation of himself."
• "Nature, usually so unpliant to the spirit of people who live with her, showing a bleak and rugged face, which poetically should indicate the abode of savages and ogres, to Hans"