Meaning of nonkilling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lack of killing; permitting to live.
   uncountable, usually
2. An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).
   countable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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”

“[…] 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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