non-resistance

A form of nonresistance — Lack of resistance; not actively resisting.

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Meanings

nounnon-resistance (countable and uncountable, plural non-resistances)

plural non-resistances

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of nonresistance.

    I knew but little, no more than other men of what has been taught or written on the subject of non-resistance in former times.

    1894, Leo Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], “Introductory”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Kingdom of God is within You: or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-conception. […], London: Walter Scott, […], →OCLC, page 2
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