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Passive Resistance

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Noun

1. nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, passive resistance

peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

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Passive Resistance

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noun
resistance to a government, law, etc, made without violence, as by fasting, demonstrating peacefully, or refusing to cooperate

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Passive Resistance

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opposition to a government or occupying power by refusal to comply with orders, or by such nonviolent acts as voluntary fasting or public demonstrations

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Passive Resistance

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n.
Noncooperation or noncompliance with the laws or directives of an authority, particularly of a government or occupying power, as a form of protest against injustice.

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