non-reˈsisting, ppl. a.
[non- 3.]
= non-resistant a. A.
| 1712 Berkeley Pass. Obed. Wks. III. (1871) 137 Absolute non-resisting obedience to government. 1715 Addison Freeholder No. 15 ¶2 The Non-resisting women..think no post tenable against an army, that makes so fine an appearance. 1801 Nelson 22 Apr. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) IV. 346 God forbid I should destroy a non-resisting Dane. 1814 Southey Lett. (1856) II. 389 Scenes ensue, in the course of which Oliver drops his nonresisting principles, and cuts down the renegade with a tomahawk. 1884 Spencer The Man v. the State 3 The Non-Resisting Test Bill, which proposed for legislators and officials a compulsory oath that they would in no case resist the king by arms. |