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Definition of Yielding
Yielding

of Yield

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.

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Yielding Quotations

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Quentin Crisp

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
George Whitefield

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
John Buchanan Robinson

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
Jane Grey Swisshelm

Yielding Translations

yielding in French is rendant
yielding in German is gewinnend
yielding in Swedish is foglig, undfallande


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