DOCILITY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. [Obs. or R.]

2.
n.

Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith. Beattie.


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