Noun

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}

(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.

An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which someone or something is restrained.

* George Meredith

She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said;