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transigent en · ADJ

Etymology

Back-formation from intransigent.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Willing to compromise.
   • But in the second half scientists will undoubtedly make progress in synthesizing the hormones, the mysterious secretions of the ductless glands which regulate the make-up of our personalities, determining whether we are to be big or little, energetic or lazy, virile or effeminate, aggressive or transigent, high-strung or lethargic. 1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:
   • By year's end, he was to admit that Chicago had proved to be more difficult than any place he had been; more transigent, less amenable to reason, more violent. 2007 [1989], “Is Dr King on board?”, in Vinay Samuel, Albrecht Hauser, editors, Proclaiming Christ in Christ's Way, page 201:
   • “I think Bruno mainly appeals to a small minority, Italians who are at the margins of society,” said Paolo Fabbri, a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. “Ours is such a transigent culture, we are known for ‘transformismo,’ going along to get along.” 2000 February 18, Alessandra Stanley, “Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • As the editors of the Gazeta da Tarde explained their position, “Intransigent in principles, we are, however, transigent in facts.” 1972, Robert Brent Toplin, The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 85:
   • Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Prez y Prez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." 1966 April 22, “Unaccustomed Calm”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013:
   • He is Everyman in exile, the exile in every man. A transigent man, easy, warm, thinking, he makes up in little acts of imagination for frustrations not of his making. 1985, R. P. Blackmur, “The Jew in Search of a Son”, in Harold Bloom, editor, The Art of the Critic, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 334:
   • The internal contradictions resulting from the lack of distinction between the religious and the socio-political spheres of action had been perceived by the more intelligent and best intentioned, and this accounted for the perplexities of Toniolo and many others, both intransigent and transigent. 1977, Marco Caliaro, Mario Francesconi, John Baptist Scalabrini: Apostle to Emigrants, →ISBN, page 11:
   • Here is Ezra Klein, explaining why Republican are suddenly looking more, shall we say, transigent on immigration than they’ve been on taxes: […] 2013 January 28, Ross Douthat, “Immigration and Republican Self-Interest”, in The New York Times:

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Synonyms

compromising (willing to compromise)

transigent en · NOUN

Etymology

Back-formation from intransigent.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) A person who is willing to compromise or to be brought to terms.
   • As in other areas, in this field the traditional distinction between transigents and intransigents was clearly at work. 2009, Giuseppe Maria Finaldi, Italian National Identity in the Scramble for Africa: Italy's African Wars […] , →ISBN, page 214:

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