"transigent" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1966 April 22, “Unaccustomed Calm”, in Time, archived from the original on 2013-08-27:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "1972, Robert Brent Toplin, The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 85:",
          "text": "As the editors of the Gazeta da Tarde explained their position, “Intransigent in principles, we are, however, transigent in facts.”",
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          "ref": "1977, Marco Caliaro, Mario Francesconi, John Baptist Scalabrini: Apostle to Emigrants, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1985, R. P. Blackmur, “The Jew in Search of a Son”, in Harold Bloom, editor, The Art of the Critic, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 334:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2000 February 18, Alessandra Stanley, “Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“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.”",
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          "ref": "2007 [1989], “Is Dr King on board?”, in Vinay Samuel, Albrecht Hauser, editors, Proclaiming Christ in Christ's Way, page 201:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2013 January 28, Ross Douthat, “Immigration and Republican Self-Interest”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Here is Ezra Klein, explaining why Republican are suddenly looking more, shall we say, transigent on immigration than they’ve been on taxes: […]",
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          "text": "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.\"",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "“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.”",
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          "text": "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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