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Making no resistance.

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  1. a. Making no resistance.
  2. n. One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.
  3. adj. (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
  4. adj. offering no resistance, compliant
  5. Making no resistance. One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.
  6. s. offering no resistance