nonresistant

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nonresistant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nonresistant \Non`re*sist"ant\, a.
     Making no resistance.
     [1913 Webster]

  Nonresistant \Non`re*sist"ant\, n.
     1. One who maintains that no resistance should be made to
        constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively
        exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute
        submission.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One who holds that violence should never be resisted by
        force; especially, a reformer who believes in passive
        resistance.
  
     Syn: passive resister.
          [WordNet 1.5]

nonresistant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nonresistant
      adj 1: (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with;
             "liable to diabetes" [syn: liable(p), nonimmune,
             nonresistant, unresistant]
      2: offering no resistance