Adjective
Willing to compromise.
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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.
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."
As the editors of the Gazeta da Tarde explained their position, “Intransigent in principles, we are, however, transigent in facts.”
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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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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Here is Ezra Klein, explaining why Republican are suddenly looking more, shall we say, transigent on immigration than they’ve been on taxes: […]
Noun
A person who is willing to compromise or to be brought to terms.
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As in other areas, in this field the traditional distinction between transigents and intransigents was clearly at work.