nonintervention
Americannoun
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abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions.
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failure or refusal to intervene.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of nonintervention
First recorded in 1820–30; non- + intervention
Example Sentences
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It was because of democracies’ nonintervention pact that Almudéver’s unit first made its way to the front with guns but no bullets.
From Slate • May 27, 2021
They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019
The deaths represented China’s first combat troops killed in action since border clashes following its last war, with Vietnam in 1979, after which it espoused nonintervention in affairs abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2016
But sometimes it’s important to mourn the consequences of nonintervention too.
From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2016
The Pope John XII. had been desired to appoint the king; he pleaded the principle of nonintervention, and bade the nation execute its own laws and its own will.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
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