11 February 2017
intransigent or intransigeant
[in-tran-si-juh nt]
adjective
1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
noun
2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
Origin of intransigent
Spanish
1875-1880; < Spanish intransigente, equivalent to in- in-3+ transigente (present participle of transigir to compromise) < Latin trānsigent- (stem of trānsigēns, present participle of trānsigere to come to an agreement); see transact
Related forms
intransigence, intransigency, noun
intransigently, adverb
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Examples from the Web for intransigent
Contemporary Examples
And why is it that the Republicans can be so intransigent and Barack Obama gets blamed?
Bob Woodward and the Rules of Washington Morality
Michael Tomasky
March 2, 2013
But on the subject of marriage, Motilal was intransigent : his son would have to endure an arranged match.
Hold Onto Your Penis
David Frum, Justin Green
November 28, 2012
They know most voters want them to work things out, which is why the other guys should stop being so intransigent.
Obama’s GOP Frenemies Hit the White House
Howard Kurtz
November 29, 2010
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
– Sylvia Plath
On this day
11 February 1847 – birth of Thomas Edison, U.S. inventor. Died 18 October 1931.
11 February 1916 – Emma Goldman arrested for campaigning for birth control in New York.
11 February 1945 – The Yalta Agreement is signed by Josef Stalin (USSR), Winston Churchill (UK), Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), regarding the control of Germany once World War II finishes.
11 February 1963 – death of Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Boston, she travelled to the UK and studied at Cambridge University. It was here that she met British poet, Ted Hughes. In 1957 they married. For a while they lived in Boston, before returning to England and living in London and later Devon. Plath often wrote about her experiences, particularly with depression. She advanced the genre of ‘confessional poetry’. Plath struggled with the loneliness of Devon and returned to London, renting a unit in a house where the poet, William Butler Yeats once lived. The unit was owned by Assia and David Wevill. Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, was captivated by Assia’s beauty. In September 1962, Plath left Hughes after discovering he’d been having an affair with Assia. Plath suffered bipolar disorder and had made numerous suicide attempts throughout her life. In February 1963, she suicided by turning the gas on in her oven and placing her head in it. She had sealed her children’s rooms with wet towels to avoid poisoning them. Plath had published a number of poetry collections and some were published post-humously. In 1982, she was awarded a post-humous Pulitzer Prize for her poetry. She is considered one of the great poets of the 20th century. Died 27 October 1932.
11 February 1979 – the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, is overthrown by the Iranian Revolution, and replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini.