Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Intransigent

Intransigent , adjective

[French intransigeant (compare Sp. intransigente); pref. in- not + Latin transigere to come to an agreement; trans across + agere to lead, act.]

Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable. — Lond. Sat. Rev