Nonviolence Definition

nŏn-vīə-ləns
non-violence
noun
Lack of violence.
American Heritage
An abstaining from violence or from the use of physical force, as in efforts to obtain civil rights or in opposing government policy.
Webster's New World

Alternative spelling of nonviolence.

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Nonviolence Sentence Examples

  • Parents can teach children nonviolence by controlling their own tempers.

  • Black people had been taught nonviolence; it was deep in us.

  • He also linked Gandhian principled nonviolence with the pragmatic nonviolent direct action of the syndicalists.

  • One is the approach of pure nonviolence, which cannot readily or easily attract large masses, for it requires extraordinary discipline and courage.

  • How did the samurai square their occupations with the general Buddhist principle of nonviolence?

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