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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

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

Why did so many Jews go unresisting, even unknowing, to the extermination camps?

From Time Magazine Archive

Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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