a. (UN-1 7 b.)

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1609.  G. Benson, Serm., 7 March, 55. Be perswaded, let not your hearts be vnmalleable.

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1665.  J. Spencer, Prodigies (ed. 2), 341. To grow (like Iron often heated and quench’d) churlish and unmalleable by the hammer of the Divine threatnings.

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1779.  Johnson, L. P., Dryden, Wks. II. 395. After this he did not often bring upon his anvil such stubborn and unmalleable thoughts.

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1795.  Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 341. Hard unmalleable iron.

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1838.  Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1883), 166. A man of unmalleable habits.

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1890.  Spectator, 19 July, 79/2. The large masses of rather unmalleable human material which he contrives to collect together.

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  Hence Unmalleableness.

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1644.  R. Chalfont, Serm., 10 May, 8 The hardnesse and unmalleablenesse of heart.

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