Dictionary

nonkilling en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From non- + killing.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Not 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

nonkilling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From non- + killing.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Lack of killing; permitting to live.
   • Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […] 1994, Grolier Incorporated, Academic American encyclopedia, page 165:
   • […] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic 2002, Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, page 1:
   • […] 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:
2. (countable, usually) An 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:
   • […] 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:

Forms

Relateds

satyagraha · nonlethal · nonviolence · ahimsa

Translations (45)

sv ickedödande (A precept or worldview) · cs nezabíjení (A precept or worldview) · lt nežudymas (A precept or worldview) · ig egbughị egbu (A precept or worldview) · pt não matar (A precept or worldview) · id anti-pembunuhan (A precept or worldview) · ko 비살생 (A precept or worldview) · sh neubijanje (A precept or worldview) · cmn 無殺戮 /无杀戮 (A precept or worldview) · ca no-matar (A precept or worldview) · uk не вбивати (A precept or worldview) · rom bi-mudaripen (A precept or worldview) · sl neubijanje (A precept or worldview) · haw Hakakā ʻole (A precept or worldview) · ga neamh-mharú (A precept or worldview) · gl non matar (A precept or worldview) · eu hiltzerik-ez (A precept or worldview) · he אל־הרג (A precept or worldview) · eo nemortigo (A precept or worldview) · el απόλεμος (A precept or worldview) · fi tappamattomuus (A precept or worldview) · fr non-meurtre (A precept or worldview) · pl niezabijanie (A precept or worldview) · nl niet-doding (A precept or worldview) · ht pa touye (A precept or worldview) · ro nonucidere (A precept or worldview) · tl walang-pagpatay (A precept or worldview) · es no-matar (A precept or worldview) · sk nezabíjení (A precept or worldview) · ia non-occider (A precept or worldview) · th การไม่ฆ่า (A precept or worldview) · tr öldürmeme (A precept or worldview) · arz عدم القتل (A precept or worldview) · mi patungakore (A precept or worldview) · bg неубийство (A precept or worldview) · hu gyilkolásmentesség (A precept or worldview) · no ikkedrap (A precept or worldview) · ar لَا قَتْل (A precept or worldview) · cr É-nipathtákániwahk (A precept or worldview) · sa अहिंसा (A precept or worldview) · war diri-pagpatay (A precept or worldview) · ru неприя́тие уби́йства (A precept or worldview) · da ikkedrab (A precept or worldview) · it nonuccidere (A precept or worldview) · ja 不殺生 (A precept or worldview)