All 8 Uses

passive
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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But by the time she had got back to the village she was passively trusting to the favour of accident.†
Chpt 1 *
She passively sat down amid the leaves he had heaped, and shivered slightly.†
Chpt 1
She turned her head in the same passive way, as one might turn at the request of a sketcher or hairdresser, and he kissed the other side, his lips touching cheeks that were damp and smoothly chill as the skin of the mushrooms in the fields around.†
Chpt 2
Tess had drifted into a frame of mind which accepted passively the consideration that if she should have to burn for what she had done, burn she must, and there was an end of it.†
Chpt 2
In the twilight of the morning, light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light which is the drowsy reverse.†
Chpt 3
Her naturally bright intelligence had begun to admit the fatalistic convictions common to field-folk and those who associate more extensively with natural phenomena than with their fellow-creatures; and she accordingly drifted into that passive responsiveness to all things her lover suggested, characteristic of the frame of mind.†
Chpt 4
His mood transmuted itself into a dogged indifference till at length he fancied he was looking on his own existence with the passive interest of an outsider.†
Chpt 5
She passively assented, and putting the room in order, they took up the few articles that belonged to them, and departed noiselessly.†
Chpt 7

Definitions:

(1) (passive as in: she remained passive)
accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly
(2) (passive as in: written using the passive voice)
grammar: where the subject receives the action rather than doing it

"The dog chased the cat." is written in the active voice where the dog is doing the action. "The cat was chased by the dog" is written in the passive voice where the cat is receiving the action.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More specialized senses of the word are found in chemistry, physics, electronics, and communications. All senses have to do with inactivity.