a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1609. G. Benson, Serm., 7 March, 55. Be perswaded, let not your hearts be vnmalleable.
1665. J. Spencer, Prodigies (ed. 2), 341. To grow (like Iron often heated and quenchd) churlish and unmalleable by the hammer of the Divine threatnings.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Dryden, Wks. II. 395. After this he did not often bring upon his anvil such stubborn and unmalleable thoughts.
1795. Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 341. Hard unmalleable iron.
1838. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1883), 166. A man of unmalleable habits.
1890. Spectator, 19 July, 79/2. The large masses of rather unmalleable human material which he contrives to collect together.
Hence Unmalleableness.
1644. R. Chalfont, Serm., 10 May, 8 The hardnesse and unmalleablenesse of heart.