nonviolence
See also: non-violence
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nonviolence (usually uncountable, plural nonviolences)
- A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.
- 2014, Jamie Pitts, Principalities and Powers:
- From this theological perspective, the spectrum of violences has to give way to a spectrum of nonviolences.
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[edit]philosophy that rejects violence
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