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docile
/ˈdɑ.səl/
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What does docile mean?
adjective
- Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
- Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
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But it occurred to me that a young and docile Hexagon, with a mathematical turn, would be a most suitable pupil.
They were perfectly docile and obedient, and not by word, gesture, or look did they express any dissatisfaction with orders given them.
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Besides, men are born docile, and must in the nature of things remain so with regard to everything they do not understand.
They are more docile, handle easier, and are more tractable, and will do what you want with less trouble than the other.
For nothing is more intractable than man when in felicity, nor anything more docile, when he has been reduced and humbled by fortune.