Both Uses of
malleable
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- The mistress of the house, meanwhile, as is usual with persons of her stiff and unmalleable cast, stood mostly aside; willing to lend her aid, yet conscious that her natural inaptitude would be likely to impede the business in hand.†
Chpt 5unmalleable = not easily shaped or influencedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmalleable means not and reverses the meaning of malleable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The quality of Hepzibah's mind was too unmalleable to take new impressions so readily as Clifford's.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
of people: flexible or easily influenced
of materials: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
of materials: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out