nonkilling

alternative non-killing

1. not comparableNot engaging in killing.

   (...) we encourage scientific research (...) to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies

   2007, 8th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Charter for a World Without Violence

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   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 accomplices

   2001, Jeff Evans, Undoing time: American prisoners in their own words, page 149

plural nonkillings · alternative non-killing

1. uncountableusuallyLack of killing; permitting to live.

   […] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic

   2002, Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, page 1

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   […] 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

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

   But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly

   1994, Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the mind: language and human nature, page 200

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   […] 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

   This also includes nonkillings that in the end eliminate the group, such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children out of the group

   2008, Heinz Duthel, Guilty as Charged! A Case for the International Criminal Court, page 20