unresistingadj.

1586 G. Whetstone Eng. Myrror ii. vi. 128 Armed troupes to gard the vnresisting Martyrs to burning.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. xi. 98 The Riuer..gently mingled it selfe with the vnresisting Sea.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. l. xx. 270 The bondage of conquered, wounded, unresisting people.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 329 As a Stone would tend toward the Center through an unresisting Medium.

1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 21 To the Shore You gayly drag your unresisting Prize.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 116 That unresisting languor, so frequently fatal to the female heart.

1836 A. Gesner Remarks Geol. & Mineral. Nova Scotia 141 The sea..is yearly extending the limits of its confines, by wearing down the unresisting rocks of the shore.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 282 The Jacobites, silent and unresisting, became prisoners.

1902 H. J. Mackinder Britain & Brit. Seas ix. 129 Before the denudation of the relatively unresisting Old Red Sandstones, the Sidlaw and Ochil ranges must have been buried in an upland.

1982 M. Z. Bradley Mists of Avalon iv. viii. 745 They took her stiff and unresisting body and lifted her and carried her to bed.

2007 M. J. Klarman Unfinished Business x. 176 Television and newspapers featured images of police dogs attacking unresisting demonstrators.

1703 H. Michel Duplex in Carolo-cidas Querela i. 13 Oh! had but his Non-such Murderers so unresistingly Comported themselves towards their Matchless King, Happy they!

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 158 Ellena followed unresistingly..up a path.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xxvi. 381 They..unresistingly left their property to the hands of the spoilers.

1907 E. P. Oppenheim Malefactor xviii. 267 Every gleam of colouring, every breath of perfume, seemed to carry him unresistingly back to the days of his boyhood.

1997 H. Hoffmann Sotades vi. 82 The sphinx has snatched a youth from his family and carries him towards an altar. The youth..abandons himself unresistingly to his fate.

1829 C. MacFarlane Constantinople in 1828 ii. 18 Hundreds submitted their throat to the knife with a placidity and self-possession and unresistingness, that might go far to merit that palm.

1967 I. W. Erwin & S. L. C. Clapp Friends of Themselves iii. 58 She was taken on trips from the like of which she had sometimes been excluded, the family having, perhaps unconsciously, imposed upon her unresistingness.