transigent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Willing to compromise.

   • 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.”
2. 2

   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.

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