Intransigeance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of intransigence. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "The last two incidents are, however, instructive, for they illustrate the intransigeance of the old German Junker and official classes of all grades, and they show the difficulties to be contended against by such Germans as have taken the lessons of the war to heart, and are struggling to make the disappearance of militarism coincide also with the spread of a more urbane and democratic spirit."

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inflexibilityintransigencerelentlessnessrigiditystiffnesstoughness

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"The Palestinians are blamed for their "intransigeance" because they don't want to disappear."

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