transigent

English

Adjective

transigent (comparative more transigent, superlative most transigent)

  1. 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.

Noun

transigent (plural transigents)

  1. A person who is willing to compromise or to be brought to terms.

Anagrams


French

Verb

transigent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of transiger
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of transiger

Latin

Verb

transigent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of transigō
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