non-violent
adjEtymology From non- + violent.
1
Of a deed, event etc., without violence.
2
Of a person or movement, opposed to violence.
- The measure asked Gov. Ronald Reagan to declare April 4 Martin Luther King Jr. day as a memorial to "the nation's leading advocate of loving non-violent action."1969 March 14, “King Resolution Rehearing Promised”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 108, number 304, page 35, columns 2–3:
3
Of a convict, sentenced for a crime that did not involve violence.
- Related terms
- nonviolence