Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unresisting manner; without resistance; submissively.
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- adverb In an
unresisting way; withoutresistance .
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Examples
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It was cold indeed, though the only wind was that made by their progress; but Fleda had been again unresistingly wrapped in the furs, and was, for the time, beyond the reach of that or any other annoyance.
Queechy 1854
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Is this the heritage of Gandhi — that those who protest injustice and violence are now required to submit unresistingly to blows and boots in order to be legitimate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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Is this the heritage of Gandhi — that those who protest injustice and violence are now required to submit unresistingly to blows and boots in order to be legitimate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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Is this the heritage of Gandhi — that those who protest injustice and violence are now required to submit unresistingly to blows and boots in order to be legitimate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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Is this the heritage of Gandhi — that those who protest injustice and violence are now required to submit unresistingly to blows and boots in order to be legitimate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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Is this the heritage of Gandhi — that those who protest injustice and violence are now required to submit unresistingly to blows and boots in order to be legitimate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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Is this the heritage of Gandhi — that those who protest injustice and violence are now required to submit unresistingly to blows and boots in order to be legitimate?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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I therefore followed, unresistingly and in silence; along one or two passages of much greater length than consisted with the ideas I had previously entertained of the size of the house.
Redgauntlet 2008
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"(Cheney, or Bush)" One must not unresistingly let himself be swept along by unfavorable circumstances, nor permit his steadfastness to be shaken.
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Into this herbaceous penitentiary, situated on an upper staircase – landing: a low and narrow whitewashed cell, where bunches of dried leaves hung from rusty hooks in the ceiling, and were spread out upon shelves, in company with portentous bottles: would the Reverend Septimus submissively be led, like the highly popular lamb who has so long and unresistingly been led to the slaughter, and there would he, unlike that lamb, bore nobody but himself.
yarb commented on the word unresistingly
The corrugated
rapidly-moving strip of rubber seemed
to draw the arm smoothly, unresistingly
up through the oiled steel rollers.
- Peter Reading, Pacepacker, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008