nonresistance
- n group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence
- After four months of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent nonresistance, it seemed to the listeners that the bumbling BBC was carrying coals to Newcastle again.
- Similar notions, passionately held, drove Tolstoy to abandon family and property and preach nonresistance as well as noncooperation with any of the institutions of society.
- Maestro Amalfi executes a masterly revenge by talking Magnolia into nonresistance after some wine in his apartment.