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Definition of Passive resistance
1. Noun. Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
Generic synonyms: Direct Action
Specialized synonyms: Hunger Strike, Satyagraha
Derivative terms: Nonviolent, Nonviolent
Literary usage of Passive resistance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1833)
"The denunciations of the agitators wen forth; the doctrines of passive resistance
were preached ; the example of passive resistance was set; legal opinions ..."
2. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"It was then that Mr. Tilak gave out the idea of passive resistance. ... Object of
the passive resistance Movement. The object was two-fold. (I). ..."
3. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1894)
"passive resistance. STRAFFORD, at least, had no notion of coming to a compromise
with a Parliament which was bent on peace with Scotland, and 1640. which ..."
4. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1907)
"It indicated that Massa- •. chusetts was again pursuing the tactics of passive
resistance, and that it chose to define the relations which existed between ..."
5. Manual of Political Ethics by Francis Lieber (1875)
"Non-compliance with the Laws, or passive Resistance. — Active Resistance. — Armed
Resistance.—Insurrection.—Revolution.—Resistance formerly considered ..."
6. Life of Lord Lawrence by Reginald Bosworth Smith (1883)
"They offered a passive resistance to the possibly over-active efforts which were
made to improve them in European fashion; and it was more difficult for a ..."
7. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1904)
"... cn'i Saturday's paper Party Complications in Scotland, 7 d 6 a passive resistance.
IoS a— 6 a 4 e— 13 о 5 e—24 - Letter on 6 n Н/ • 9/— 30 оK/ ..."
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