non-interventionistn.adj.

1831 Atlas 13 Feb. 1/2 A new ‘non-intervention’ by France—the original and most eager of the non-interventionists, whereby she told the Belgians that they might elect whom they pleased for King..on pain of being attacked by a French (non-intervening) army.

1851 Littell's Living Age 20 Dec. 573/2 Why do not our non-interventionists point to a single instance in which this moral influence has annihilated the material force of the oppressor?

1860 Sat. Rev. 10 483/1 The Greek ecclesiastics are non-interventionists.

1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xiii. 649 That same intellectual non-interventionist whom he had visited in the fly-blown office.

1941 Amer. Observer 15 Dec. 1/3 Interventionists and noninterventionists stood together in unflinching determination to fight and win against a treacherous foe.

1998 S. Venturelli Liberalizing European Media 200 The debate over cultural and audiovisual policy is not a contest between dirigistes and liberals, that is, between interventionists and non-interventionists.

1835 Age 19 July 231/3 ‘Easy, easy—(gently interposes the non-interventionist Palmerstonian Gazette)—our policy is peace—never mind..any kicking, or nose-pulling,..or abuse, or indignity.’

1884 Liverpool Mercury 14 Feb. 5/6 The non-interventionist peace party.

1952 Econ. Hist. Rev. 4 418 The adoption of a ‘strong’ policy..produced a railway concession, where a ‘weak’ (i.e. non-interventionist) policy did not.

1980 A. M. Lindenburgh War within & Without p. xix To give voice to both pacifist and other noninterventionist sentiment in the country.

1997 K. A. Wurst Self-Fashioning of Bourgeoisie 11 Another example of its noninterventionist position is the way it chose to engage in the corset debate.