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inaction|ɪnˈækʃən|
[f. in-3 + action n.: cf. F. inaction (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Absence of action or activity; inertness, supineness.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 63 In Winter, the Trees are in a state of Inaction. 1796Burke Let. to Ld. Rockingham Wks. 1842 II. 393 That your lordship should meet your friends with some settled plan either of action or inaction. 1861Stanley East. Ch. i. (1869) 35 In regard to missions the inaction of the Eastern Churches is well known. 1868[see inactivity b]. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §2. 120 The revelation of a danger at home..shook him out of his contemptuous inaction.
Hence inˈactionist, one who advocates inaction; a member of a party of inaction.
1892Temple Bar Mag. May 50 It is..his schemes for the reconstruction of society that most raise the gall of the great inactionist, who..fumes at interference. |