a. rare. [f. YIELD v. + -ABLE.] † a. Having the quality of yielding, productive of. † b. Disposed to yield, submissive. c. That can be yielded. rare–0 (mod. Dicts.). Hence Yieldableness (in quot., † submissiveness).
1577. Harrison, England, I. viii. 17 b, in Holinshed. If … the soyle [were] yeeldable of woode.
1603. H. Crosse, Vertue’s Commw. (1878), 19. She is euer readie to dwel where she findeth the heart yeeldable to honestie.
1645. Bp. Hall, Three Tract., Peace-maker, § 13. The fourth disposition for Peace, a yeeldablenesse upon sight of clearer Truths.
