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Passive resistance   /pˈæsɪv rɪzˈɪstəns/   Listen
Passive resistance

noun
1.
Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.  Synonyms: nonviolence, nonviolent resistance.






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"Passive resistance" Quotes from Famous Books



... more heavily. The temperaments of the two brothers so differed that while the French one was prostrated by the agony of a stroke, and then rallied patiently to endure the effects, the English character opposed a passive resistance to the blow, gave no sign of grief or pain, and from that very determination suffered a sort of exhaustion that made the effects of the evil more and more left. Thus, from the time Philip's somewhat tardy imagination had been made to realize his home, his ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge



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