Word family noun violence ≠ non-violence violator violation adjective violent ≠ non-violent verb violate adverb violently
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnon-violentˌnon-ˈviolent adjective not using or not involving violence → peaceful a non-violent protest against the government an increase in the amount of violent and non-violent crimeExamples from the Corpus
non-violent• They are believed to have been non-violent, adhering scrupulously to an other-worldly pacifism.• Our organization has always been non-violent and non-partisan.• The detainees include individuals suspected of involvement in armed opposition or non-violent anti-government activity.• This section will focus on these two perspectives and their relationship with non-violent aspects of communal group protest activity.• In contrast, Piaroa minimize gender differences and maintain the same normative code of non-violent behaviour for both males and females.• In this sense political activity has to do with non-violent contention within an ordered framework.• Some of us old fogies - I am 60 - are non-violent from necessity.• Yet when it comes to acting against those making a non-violent protest against fuel prices, they suddenly seem very keen indeed.• In 1942, the Congress Party demanded immediate independence, and threatened massive though non-violent resistance.• And it is he who is credited with introducing King to the writings of Gandhi and the concept of non-violent resistance. 