单词 | non-intervener |
释义 | non-intervenern. A person who does not intervene; spec. an advocate of political non-intervention. Cf. non-interventionist n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > neutrality > [noun] > a neutral neutralc1449 neutrality1480 neuter1555 by-liera1572 non-intervener1937 1937 A. P. Herbert in Punch 8 Sept. 275/1 The Non-Intervention Committee are meeting, The Non-Interveners are meeting again. 1942 ‘A. Bridge’ Frontier Passage iv. 53 Mr. Crumpaun..was playing bridge with the elderly clergyman and two Non-Interveners. 1981 Social Psychol. Q. 44 14 Thirty-two individuals who intervened in dangerous criminal episodes.., were interviewed at length and compared with a group of noninterveners matched for age, sex, education, and ethnic background. 1991 World Politics 43 321 But what are we to believe about the set of noninterveners if the expectation is that everyone will intervene? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937 |
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