non-consentingadj.

1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet xxxiv. 56 How prove you..that the Relation of the Ejected London Ministers, and their Flocks was Dissolved, and that the Succeeders were true Pastors to the Non-consenting Flocks?

1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert I. 280 Love, which he saw was received with smiles and curtsies, though her lips spoke a non-consenting language.

1865 E. Anthony Treat. on Law of Consolidation of Railroad Companies 260 The act of consolidation was not void because the State assented to it; but a non-consenting stockholder was discharged.

1897 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 440 They [sc. unions] would limit production..; would starve some kinds of workmen..; would close non-consenting factories, [etc.].

1958 Decisions U.S. Court Mil. Appeals 8 344/1 When the subject of a sodomitical act is a nonconsenting human being, then assault is an element of the offense.

1992 D. W. Larmouth et al. Legal & Ethical Issues in Surreptitious Recording No. 76. 24 The court defined an ‘injurious act’ as an illegitimate act not amounting to a crime or tort that harms the nonconsenting person.