Non-violent
ə adjective
1.
not violent; free of violence.
2.
peacefully resistant, as in response to or protest against injustice, especially on moral or philosophical grounds.
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| —n | |
| abstention from the use of physical force to achieve goals | |
| non'violent | |
| —adj | |
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Non-violent
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
non-violent
1920, in ref. to "principle or practice of abstaining from violence," first in writings of M.K. Gandhi, from non- + violent (see violence).
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." [Gandhi, "Non-violence in Peace and War," 1948]
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