Plaint vs Pliant - What's the difference?
plaint | pliant |
(poetic, or, archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
* 1827 , Maria Elizabeth Budden,
A complaint.
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
An accusation.
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.
(figuratively) Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
* 2013 , A. J. Langguth, Patriots
Pliant is a anagram of plaint.
As a noun plaint
is a lament or woeful cry.As an adjective pliant is
capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.plaint
English
Noun
(en noun)Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 11:
- In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint ?) that he could never more taste of joy.
- she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
- Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "[The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear."