Word Meanings - UNRESISTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to UNRESISTANCE)

• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• IRRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission.
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• PASSIVE
  Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive. (more info) 1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The
• PASSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission. To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. J. Edwards.
• PASSIVELY
  1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly. 2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
• NONRESISTANCE
  The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• INSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.