How to pronounce“docile”in English
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Definitions of “docile”
Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
“With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence. He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission to her entreaty; and walking with a feeble gait, and looking back, with a tremble, at the room in which he had been so long shut up, and where he had seen the picture in the glass, passed out with her into the hall.”
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
“Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.”
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