Literary usage of Passivist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alienist and Neurologist (1892)
"The passivist is as a rule insensible to the happiness of the loved one. ...
Passivism may appear in sexual inversion, when the passivist becomes a ..."
2. Psychology of the Religious Life by George Malcolm Stratton (1911)
"The Western passivist still believes in inner experience as having the essence of
... The Eastern passivist often finds this, too, but finite and delusive. ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"... 89:12 О '16 passivist defense. New Repub 5:225 Ja 1 '18 Wharves See aleo Piers
What every man should know; story. AD Miller, il Cent 91:512-13 F '16 ..."
4. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"... having good words even for the abomination of serfdom, his passivist Christianity
now leading him to approve the institution. Belinskii, who was then in ..."
5. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"... the Pharisees, democratic and religious, somewhat passivist in tendency, and
the zealots or nationalists, the latter under strong Parthian influence. ..."
6. Battle for Ulster: A Study of Internal Security by Tom F. Baldy (1997)
"The Hillsborough Agreement one year later seemed to suggest that Margaret Thatcher
had transformed from a "passivist" to an "activist" in Irish affairs. ..."
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