"nonviolence"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED has this back to 1920 as a pacifist term.  Here is an early ex. of the word in a  less political sense.

1943 Charles O'Neal & DeWitt Bodeen _The Seventh Victim_ (film) : We're pledged to nonviolence.

The speaker is a member of a secret cult of middle-class devil-worshipers. What she means is they're pledged not to kill people (except in special circumstances, as it turns out).

JL


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