Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from non- + resistance.
Usage examples of "non-resistance".
In the bad period of 1940 he also urged non-resistance in England, should England be invaded.
By allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea.
From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "Does not matter please yourself.
By believing without feeling perturbation, forgetting ideas of external and internal, he regards everything as self, and is the consciousness of non-resistance, has no horizon: he is free.
By non-resistance (involuntary thought and action), worry and apprehension of non-fulfilment, being transient, find no permanent abode: he desires everything.
But if (which God forbid) there had been no hope of so blessed a consummation, we should still have preferred to endure the hardness of this conflict, rather than, by our non-resistance, to yield ourselves to the dominion of vice.
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess.
No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.