unresistance
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + resistance.
Noun
[edit]unresistance (uncountable)
- Lack of resistance; [[passive#Adjective|]] submission.
- 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] LXVI. Dumbe Homage.”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], →OCLC, page 242:
- [H]ovv doe they [animals] beare our ſtripes vvith a trembling unreſiſtance?
Translations
[edit]lack of resistance
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