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Definition of Inflexibly
1. Adverb. In an inflexible manner. "`You will--because you must!,' Madam told her inflexibly"
Definition of Inflexibly
1. adv. In an inflexible manner.
Definition of Inflexibly
1. Adverb. With a firmness that resists all importunity or persuasion; in an inflexible, unyielding or immovable manner; relentlessly. ¹
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Definition of Inflexibly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflexibly
Literary usage of Inflexibly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... whether contumaciously or not, after an order to withdraw, has hitherto been
inflexibly rejected.3 This rule does not prevail in Ireland, ..."
2. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1838)
"... either amongst us or elsewhere, and who inflexibly applies himself to prevent
the violation of the laws, and the practice of iniquity in a government, ..."
3. The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller by Peter Bayne (1871)
"... AND DECIDES THAT IT IS POOR - RETAINS inflexibly HIS FIRST OPINION OF ITS
MERITS, AND RESOLVES TO CULTIVATE PROSE - DEATHS OF UNCLE JAMES AND OF WILLIAM ..."
4. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1823)
"... solid and steady, inflexibly just, incapable of using any falsehood, flattery,
or deceit, even at play. But Aristo of Chios* writes, that their enmity, ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"... is not an arbitrary term to be applied inflexibly, without regard to the
quantity or quality of the estate, the nature and species of the property, ..."
6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"She was inflexibly regular in her residence; though ' her journeys' to her
different castles 'were ' often made in the winter ..."
7. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the by John Aikin (1812)
"... never did a more diligent and inflexibly upright judge sit upon either of
those benches. If he manifested a leaning towards the persecuted dissenters, ..."
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