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Inflective. [Rare.]
Inflexible; inexorable. [Rare.] And to beare safe the burthen undergone Of foes inflexiue, and inhuman hates, Secure from violent and harmeful fates. Chapman, tr. of Homer's Ode to Mars.

Of foes inflexive, and inhuman hates! " — If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
give me still Presence of mind to put in act my will Whate'er the occasion be And so to live, unforced by any fear Beneath those laws of peace, that never are Affected with pollutions popular Of unjust injury As to bear safe the burden of hard fates Of foes inflexive, and inhuman hates The tones died away; the company was hushed for a moment; and the old chief then said gravely to his petulant follower, "That is what men fight for, boy." — The Man Without a Country and Other Tales