nonviolent

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,869 of 15,258leans written

Nonviolent means refusing to use force. Nonviolent protest, nonviolent resistance, a nonviolent offence.

Nonviolent resistance is a strategy rather than merely a restraint, and the research is that campaigns using it succeed more often than armed ones. In criminal justice, a nonviolent offence is a legal category that decides sentencing.

Definitions of nonviolent

1adjectivenonviolentRefusing to use force.B2+
“The students held a nonviolent protest, sitting silently in front of the town hall.”

nonviolent is a quality.

Where it comes from

non-violent comes from non- + violent.

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nonviolent in the wild

In modern times, nonviolent methods have been a powerful tool for social protest and revolutionary social and political change.
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Fuller surveys may be found in the entries on civil resistance, nonviolent resistance and nonviolent revolution.
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In 2003, nonviolent resistance led to the Rose Revolution in Georgia.
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Information on nonviolent resistance in one country could significantly affect nonviolent activism in other countries.
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The purposes behind the development of the nonviolent genre are primarily reactionary in nature.
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