1828 Dictionary: 1. The
act of resisting; opposition. resistance is passive, as that of a fixed body
which interrupts the passage of a moving body; or active, as in the exertion of
force to stop, repel or defeat progress or designs. 2. The quality of not yielding to force
or external impression; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the
impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power;
as the resistance of a ball which receives the force of
another; the resistance of wood to a cutting instrument; the resistance of
air to the motion of a cannon ball, or of water to the motion of a ship.
Dictionary.com: 1. The act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
2. The opposite on offered by one thing, force, etc., to another.
LDS.org: And thus without meeting any resistance,
they did slay a thousand and five of them; and we know that they are blessed,
for they have gone to dwell with their God.
-Alma
24:22
Quotes: The spirit of resistance to
government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept
alive.
-Thomas
Jefferson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence
of fear.
-Mark
Twain
My
Definition: Resistance is to push against, or resist something.
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