Word Meanings - IRRESISTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nonresistance; passive submission.

PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
One unprovided with motive power.
SUBMISSION
An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
PASSIVE
Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive. (more info) 1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The
PASSIVENESS
The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission. To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. J. Edwards.
PASSIVELY
1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly. 2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
NONRESISTANCE
The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.
IMPASSIVE
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
NONSUBMISSION
Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
INSUBMISSION
Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.