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Nonresistance

Definition: Nonresistance

Nonresistance

Noun

1. Group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nonresistance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Nonresistance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Obedience

Noun: obedience; observance; compliance; submission; subjection; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation.

Submission

Noun: submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Nonresistance

English words defined with "nonresistance": Irresistance ♦ Quaker gun ♦ Unresistance. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Nonresistance

DomainTitle

Books

  • Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War (reference)

  • Nonresistance and Responsibility, and Other Mennonite Essays (Institute of Mennonite Studies Series, No. 5) (reference)

  • The Hutterian Brethren, 1528-1931, and The principle of nonresistance as held by the Mennonite Church (reference)

  • War, Peace and Nonresistance (reference)

  • William Lloyd Garrison on Nonresistance Together With a Personal Sketch by His Daughter and a Tribute by Leo Tolstoy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nonresistance

Language Translations for "nonresistance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

不抵抗主義 (policy of nonresistance). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έλλειψη αντιστάσεωσ. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

無抵抗主義 , 無抵抗 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むてい"うしゅぎ, むてい"う. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onresistancenay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Nonresistance

Derivations

Words beginning with "nonresistance": nonresistances. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nonresistance"

Words rhyming with "nonresistance" (pronounced 'Non`re*sist"ance'): Abearance, Abeyance, Abidance, Abodance, Acceptance, Accordance, Achievance, Acquaintance, Admirance, Affirmance, Aggrievance, Aidance, Allegeance, Allurance, Annoyance, Appearance, Appendance, Appliance, Approvance, Arrivance, Assistance, Attendance, Avengeance, Avoidance, Avowance, Boastance, Buoyance, Chievance, Clairvoyance, Clearance, Coinsurance, Compliance, Comportance, Concordance, Conductance, Confirmance, Conformance, Connivance, Contrivance, Conveyance, Defailance, Defiance, Demeanance, Deniance, Desistance, Disacquaintance, Disaffirmance, Disagreeance, Disallowance, Disappearance. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Nonresistance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: ancientness, transiences.

-3 letters: ancestries, antecessor, cannisters, cannoneers, cannonries, consenters, constrains, containers, crenations, innateness, innocenter, interocean, nectarines, nonentries, noninsects, ornateness, recensions, resections, resistance, resonances, secretions, tensioners, transience, transsonic.

-4 letters: ancestors, ancienter, anointers, anoretics, anserines, antisense, arsenites, ascension, assertion, canisters, canneries, canniness, cannister, cannoneer, canoeists, canonises, canonists, canonries, carotenes, centiares, cessation, cineastes, cisternae, consenter, constrain.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-n-n-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: nonresistances.

 

+3 letters: counterinstances, nonconservatives.

 

+4 letters: inconsiderateness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nonresistance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6E 72 65 73 69 73 74 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    -.    .-.    .    ...    ..    ...    -    .-    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0072 0065 0073 0069 0073 0074 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48818084718575858667806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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