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The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchange…

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  1. n. The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy.
  2. n. a lack of physical flexibility
  3. n. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
  4. The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.
  5. The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable ofbeing bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness;rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity;steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy.The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter.That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill.The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.
  6. n:100 n. a lack of physical flexibility n. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe