Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of nonviolence, was born in 1869.
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Nonviolence
Synonyms for "nonviolence" (96 found)
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34 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- لاعنف noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Catalan
1 entries- no-violència noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 非暴力 noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Czech
1 entries- nenásilí noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Dutch
1 entries- geweldloosheid noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Esperanto
1 entries- neperforto noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Finnish
1 entries- väkivallattomuus noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
French
3 entries- non resistance noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
- non-résistance noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
- non-violence noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Galician
1 entries- non violencia noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
German
2 entries- Gewaltfreiheit noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
- Gewaltlosigkeit noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Gujarati
1 entries- અહિંસા noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Hindi
1 entries- अहिंसा noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Hungarian
1 entries- erőszakmentesség noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Italian
1 entries- nonviolenza noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Japanese
1 entries- 非暴力 noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Kazakh
1 entries- бейзорлық noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Korean
1 entries- 비폭력 noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Latin
2 entries- inviolentia noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
- non violentia noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Macedonian
1 entries- ненасилство noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Malayalam
1 entries- അഹിംസ noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Persian
1 entries- پرهیز از خشونت noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Portuguese
1 entries- não-violência noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Russian
2 entries- ненаси́лие noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
- отка́з от примене́ния наси́льственных мето́дов noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अष्ट्रा noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- nenasilje noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Spanish
1 entries- abstención de la violencia noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Swedish
1 entries- icke-våld noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ненасильство noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bất bạo động noun (philosophy that rejects violence)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Martin Luther King Jr. fought for civil rights for African-Americans by teaching nonviolence.
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Nonviolence only works when there are violent activists there to make the nonviolent ones seem like a reasonable compromise.
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From this theological perspective, the spectrum of violences has to give way to a spectrum of nonviolences.
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