intransigeance

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English

Noun

intransigeance (countable and uncountable, plural intransigeances)

  1. Alternative form of intransigence
    • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:
      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.

French

Etymology

From intransigeant.

Pronunciation

Noun

intransigeance f (plural intransigeances)

  1. intransigence

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