Unresisting
[ʌn'rɪzɪstɪŋ]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Submissive, patient, passive, long-suffering.
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- As soundless, as unresisting, as if some propitious genius had waited on a sesame-charm, in the vestibule within. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Margaret sat down by her mother, and took her unresisting head on her breast, bending her own soft cheeks down caressingly to touch her face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mrs Wilfer thanked him with a magnanimous sigh, and again became an unresisting prey to that inscrutable toothache. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The poor woman screamed with apprehension, and all rose, as by a general impulse, while they dragged him unresisting from the place. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here aloft, the companions of the swift-winged birds, we skim through the unresisting element, fleetly and fearlessly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Phyllis