Sekirov Dictionary

nonkilling

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 1

noun2

•
Lack of killing; permitting to live.
- […] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings. — 1993
•
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

adjective1

•
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

forms

nonkillings

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