intransigentism
nounEtymology From intransigent + -ism.
1
The principles, practice, or predisposition (nature) of intransigents: perennial refusal to compromise.
- Near-synonyms: intransigence, intransigency
- "Clerical intransigentism became a phrase as common as political intransigentism. It opposed innovations."1899, Charles Melville Pepper, To-morrow in Cuba:
- Related terms
- intransigentist