nonkilling meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

nonkilling

adj

Etymology From non- + killing.

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, ....1976, Kenneth Evan Moyer, The psychobiology of aggression, page 146:
I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices2001, Jeff Evans, Undoing time: American prisoners in their own words, page 149:

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(...) we encourage scientific research (...) to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies2007, 8th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Charter for a World Without Violence:

noun

Etymology From non- + killing.

Usually Lack of killing; permitting to live.

[…] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.1993, Ven. S. Dhammika, Seven Pillar Edicts, 7, translation of original by Ashoka the Great:
Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […]1994, Grolier Incorporated, Academic American encyclopedia, page 165:

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[…] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic2002, Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, page 1:

Usually 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.1991, Kent Greenawalt, Religious Convictions and Political Choice, page 105:
But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly1994, Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the mind: language and human nature, page 200:

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This also includes nonkillings that in the end eliminate the group, such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children out of the group2008, Heinz Duthel, Guilty as Charged! A Case for the International Criminal Court, page 20: