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nonkilling

adj

Etymology

From non- + killing.

  1. inherited from kyllyng
  2. prefixed as nonkilling — “non + killing”

Definitions

  1. Not engaging in killing.

    • Hunger does not normally induce frog killing in a nonkilling laboratory rat. However, if that rat has had the experience of watching a rat kill frogs, ....
    • I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices
    • (...) we encourage scientific research (...) to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies

  2. Lack of killing

    Lack of killing; permitting to live.

    • […] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.
    • Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […]
    • […] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic

  3. An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar…

    An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).

    • […] then its death is a moral wrong even if the result of "nonkillings" will be a marked decrease in the population of that part of the animal kingdom.
    • But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly
    • This also includes nonkillings that in the end eliminate the group, such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children out of the group

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA