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non-interˈference
[non- 1.]
Failure or refusal to interfere, esp. in politics.
1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 284 The more cases you can produce of non-interference on the other side, the more easily you may say that non-interference cannot last for ever, and you must interfere in this. 1866Crump Banking ii. 60 Banking, above all other professions, is that which under entire freedom and non-interference would soonest be placed in the most perfect position. 1907Standard 19 Jan. 8/1 If the Downing Street people would only give us [in South Africa]..a little continuity of non-interference.
attrib.1859J. Taylor Logic in Theol. 227 The ‘non-interference’ statesmen, who rule India.
So non-interˈferer, one who favours non-interference; non-interˈfering ppl. a., that does not interfere.
1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. cxxvi. III. 83 To note the way in which the non-interferers can turn round when it suits them. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 442 A non-interfering and therefore a negligeable quantity. |