Obs. [f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being compliant or docile; readiness, willingness; pliableness.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 402/2. Hir maiestie might perceiue the appliableness of those hir people.
a. 1631. Donne, Select. (1840), 76. The holy gentleness and appliableness, implied in that form of man [a minister of God].
