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unresisting

British  
/ ˌunrɪˈzɪstɪŋ /

adjective

  1. not fighting against something or someone; yielding

    she lay unresisting beneath him

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The unknown poet who chose him as a subject describes, in the entire story, exactly one blow struck by the knight the one at the beginning against the unresisting Green Knight—a gimme.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2021

And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2011

Senator and Representative has spent his weekends in ear-ringing silence, imposing, with the mere motion of a paintbrush, his will upon unresisting canvas.

From Time Magazine Archive

By most measures Carter is now fighting a good battle against the forces that can drive an unresisting President into a cocoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Where did you get this sword?” she whispered to Greyback as she pulled his wand out of his unresisting grip.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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