单词 | non-retaliation |
释义 | non-retaliationn. The principle or practice of not retaliating to insult, injury, or attack. ΚΠ 1851 W. Scoresby My Father i. 21 Acting on the system of non-retaliation, so long as they kept ‘hands off’, he bore this persecution with extraordinary forbearance. 1918 Mind New Ser. 27 323 The vogue of the poisonous Pauline immorality of Self-Sacrifice, Non-Resistance and Non-Retaliation. 1943 C. T. Craig Beginning of Christianity 101 He [sc. Christ] demanded nonretaliation no matter what it might cost. 1991 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 21 21 Although several politicians wanted Israel to join the battle, 74 percent of the public approved the policy of non-retaliation for the Scud attacks. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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