a. Obs. [UN-1 7 and 5 b.] = INFLEXIBLE a.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. xv. Falsly accounting an unflexible anger, a couragious constancie.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. § 44. 498. Seeing the Pope vnflexible, and vnsensible of so many Christians calamitie.

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1677.  Gilpin, Demonol. (1867), 152. Some spirits are unfixed and volatile…. Others are tenacious and unflexible.

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