intransigence

Meaning

Noun

Unwillingness to change one's views or to agree.

Origin

From French intransigeance, noun form of intransigeant, borrowed from Spanish intransigente at the end of the nineteenth century. Morphologically, from in- + transiger, literally "uncompromising".

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