nonresistance
See also: non-resistance and non-résistance
English
Etymology
From non- + resistance.
Noun
nonresistance (countable and uncountable, plural nonresistances)
- Lack of resistance; not actively resisting.
- 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.