Do You Hyphenate Nonviolent?

When prefixes are added to a proper noun, they require a hyphen (e.g., nonviolent, but non-European). ... However, when leaving out a hyphen will cause confusion, one should be added.

Is it nonviolent or non violent?

Yet even in English, something so small as the decision to hyphenate — nonviolent and nonviolence versus non-violent and non-violence — is ambiguous. Hyphenating the expression further accentuates a negative connotation; without a hyphen, the word becomes a more straightforward affirmation.

How do you use nonviolent in a sentence?

In nonviolent fashion, this will both defeat the repetitions of the machine and humanize the worker. He also underplays the nonviolent movement's use of coercion, such as boycotts, to try to force change. They thought that smartly dressed men were nonviolent, being gentlemen.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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