transigent
English
Adjective
transigent (comparative more transigent, superlative most transigent)
- Willing to compromise.
- 1977, Marco Caliaro, John Baptist Scalabrini, apostle to emigrants, page 11:
- 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.
- 2007, Vinay Samuel, Albrecht Hauser, Proclaiming Christ in Christ's Way: Studies in Integral Mission: Essays ...
- 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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Noun
transigent (plural transigents)
- A person who is willing to compromise or to be brought to terms.
- 2009, Giuseppe Maria Finaldi, Giuseppe Finaldi, Italian National Identity in the Scramble for Africa: Italy's African Wars ...
- As in other areas, in this field the traditional distinction between transigents and intransigents was clearly at work.
- 2009, Giuseppe Maria Finaldi, Giuseppe Finaldi, Italian National Identity in the Scramble for Africa: Italy's African Wars ...
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