> 腰まで伸びたブロンドの髪が風になびかれサラサラと揺れていた。

靡く(なびかれ) is used in this sentence in the passive form. It means "bend" and
it's an intransitive verb. So why is it in the passive form in this sentence?
Why not 髪が風になびく meaning hair bends in the wind? or is there another function
of passive where it acts as normal verbs like 言われる in honorific language?
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grammar passive-voice
why is passive used in this sentence instead of normal verb?
> 腰まで伸びたブロンドの髪が風になびかれサラサラと揺れていた。

This sentence looked odd to me because なびく in modern Japanese is always an
intransitive verb. However, as aguijonazo pointed out and as [this entry from
a 古語辞典](https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%B3%E3%81%8F) says, the
verb used to be transitive as well, in the sense of "to bend (something)". I
personally didn't know this fact, but was this written by a relatively old
novelist?
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