nonresistance as a noun: - 1
nonresistance
noun
1 nonresistance
Group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence.
Roget 725:
submission,
yielding;
nonresistance;
obedience
etc.
743.
surrender,
cession,
capitulation,
resignation;
backdown†.
obeisance,
homage,
kneeling,
genuflexion†,
courtesy,
curtsy,
kowtow,
prostration.
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Roget 743:
obedience;
observance
etc.
772;
compliance;
submission
etc.
725;
subjection
etc.
749;
nonresistance;
passiveness,
resignation.
allegiance,
loyalty,
fealty,
homage,
deference,
devotion;
constancy,
fidelity.
submissness†,
submissiveness;
ductility
etc.
(softness)
324;
obsequiousness
etc.
(servility)
886.
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