Definitions
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- adjective Not engaging in killing.
- noun A
precept orworldview that affirms the possibility of a society wherekilling is absent. - noun Lack of killing; permitting to
live . - noun countable An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).
Etymologies
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non- + killing
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Examples
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In the first place, Buddha advocated that we should obey the five precepts: nonkilling, nonstealing, non-sexual indulgence, nonviolence and nonintoxication.
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Right from the inception of our movement we have been insisting that our society should be a nonkilling society.
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"Tolstoy's core values were prophetic, and no doubt influenced the development of pacifism, the nonkilling paradigm and anarchism," said Tarasoff.
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