- pliant
[pliant 词源字典]
- pliant: see ply
[pliant etymology, pliant origin, 英语词源] - pliant (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French ploiant "bending, supple; compliant, fickle," as a noun, "turncoat" (13c.), present participle of ploier "to bend" (see ply (n.)). Figurative sense of "easily influenced" is from c. 1400. Related: Pliancy.