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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate
- 1964, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi[1], volume XII, →OCLC, page vi:
- On June 2, Gandhiji declared in an interview that passive resistance was inevitable if Government failed to meet Indian demands.
- 1975 December 21, “Difficulties in agriculture”, in Free China Weekly[2], volume XVI, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- Some Maoist “party cadres” at the lower echelon have taken an attitude of passive resistance against the “campaign of learning from Tachai in agriculture,” that was launched by Mao Tse-tung.
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Further reading[edit]
- “passive resistance”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “passive resistance, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “passive resistance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “passive resistance”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “passive resistance” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.