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NONVIOLENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
Synonyms:
nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("nonviolence" is a kind of...):
direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonviolence"):
hunger strike (a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest)
Satyagraha (the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms)
Derivation:
nonviolent (achieved without bloodshed)
nonviolent (abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence)
