passive-resistern.
/ˌpasɪvrᵻˈzɪstə/, U.S. /ˈˌpæsɪvrəˈzɪstər/, /ˈˌpæsɪvriˈzɪstər/ A person who advocates or practises passive resistance.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > intractability or recalcitrance > passive resistance > one who offers
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > intractability or recalcitrance > passive resistance > one who practises
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1833 T. B. Macaulay Speech on Disturbances Bill 28 Feb. in Speeches (1853) I. 143 Why, the active resister of the law was exposed to great personal risk, from which the cunning of the passive resister might screen him.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 5/1 At Hastings, where the Passive Resisters are numbered by hundreds.
1936 M. Plowman Faith called Pacifism 86 It was as a passive resister that the greatest revolutionary in the world became the greatest social force in the world.
1968 Punch 2 Oct. 474/1 He incurred much unpopularity as a Passive Resister, which is what people called those who refused to pay their rates towards the upkeep of Church Schools.
2003 Independent (Nexis) 7 May (Obituaries section) 16 It was a time when Mahatma Gandhi was leading passive resisters to jail in India.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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