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   intransigent

   /ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪdʒənt/

   adjective

   • 1. unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something: "her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent"

   noun

   • 1. an intransigent person.

   Word Origin late 19th century: from French intransigeant, from Spanish los intransigentes (a name adopted by the extreme republicans in the Cortes, 1873–4); based on Latin in- ‘not’ + transigere ‘come to an understanding’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. intransigency noun
   • 2. intransigently adverb

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