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Definition of Passive resister

1. Noun. A reformer who believes in passive resistance.

Literary usage of Passive resister

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy at the Crossways: A Study in Politics and History, with Special by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw (1918)
"It is impossible to be both a good citizen and a passive resister. The supreme issue at the present day among progressive peoples is between reform and ..."

2. The Diary of John Evelyn by John Evelyn, Austin Dobson (1906)
"... you will—a "passive resister," but he was a consistent passive resister. And this brings us to another matter. It is often the misfortune of caution to ..."

3. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Privy Council (1905)
"The plaintiff, a passive resister, sought to recover 12s. 6d. in the county court, the amount which he alleged he had leen overcharged in connection with a ..."

4. Speeches by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1853)
""Why, the active resister of the law was exposed to great personal risk, from which the cunning of the passive resister might screen him. ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
""passive resister" (10 S. iv. 608; v. 32, 77 ; viii. 37).—The following appears in chap. vi. of ' The Heart of Midlothian ' :— "The passive resistance of ..."

6. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1906)
"... household goods were vested in the name of the wife or other relative, the recalcitrant, passive resister was carried off to gaol. ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"For the passive resister to pay out of one pocket was intolerable, but if he pays out of the other pocket towards the same purposes the Wrong becomes the ..."

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