† non-resistern.
Obsolete. rare.
= non-resistant n.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > [noun] > non-resistance > one who practises
non-resistant1850
non-resister1851
passivist1892
1851 J. A. Quitman in J. F. H. Clairborne Life & Corr. (1860) II. 147 By the election of Non-resisters to the Convention, a majority of the people have declared against the course of policy on the slavery questions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1851- self-improvement
- self-improvements
- self-improver
- self-improvers
- self-improving
- self-incompatibility
- self-incompatible
- self-inconsistency
- self-inconsistent
- self-incriminating
- self-incrimination
- self-incriminatory
- self-inculcation
- self-indexed
- self-induced
- self-inductance
- self-induction
- self-inductive
- self-indulged
- self-indulgence
- self-indulgent
- self-indulgently
- self-indulger
- self-indulging
- self-infatuation