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Meanings of wholly passive in English

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Usage of wholly passive in English
1
But in relation to its environment, life is never wholly constructive, as it is never wholly passive.
The Moral Economy
2
It is a life that would seem to have been wholly passive-andto be passive is not good for all.
Wisdom and Destiny
3
But in a criminal court the wholly passive ideal of tolerance must give place to a sterner, loftier ideal, that of justice.
The stranger
4
Her feelings, in the beginning a mere blissful certainty that God was Love and she was God's, ceased to be wholly passive.
The Getting of Wisdom
5
Still, the interest she displayed was of a wholly passive kind; she took no part herself in this building up of the past.
Maurice Guest
6
It was a risk to take, but he could be carried on a litter by careful men, and remain wholly passive during the removal.
A Mortal Antipathy
7
He held her pressed to him, and she lay against his breast trembling but wholly passive, overcome by an inexplicable longing to hide, to hide.
Greatheart
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