non-resistance

See also: nonresistance and non-résistance

English

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of nonresistance
   • 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:

     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.