Meaning & use
intransigence
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Stubborn refusal to change one's views or reach agreement; unwillingness to compromise.
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The negotiations stalled because of both sides' intransigence.
His political intransigence alienated even members of his own party.
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From Spanish 'intransigente,' originally used to describe uncompromising factions in nineteenth-century Spanish politics.
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obstinacyinflexibility
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