nonkilling

See also: non-killing

English

Alternative forms

• non-killing

Etymology

non- +‎ killing

Adjective

nonkilling (not comparable)

1. Not engaging in killing.
   • 1976, Kenneth Evan Moyer, The psychobiology of aggression, page 146:

     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, ....

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

     I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices

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

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

Noun

nonkilling (usually uncountable, plural nonkillings)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A precept or worldview that affirms the possibility of a society where killing is absent.
2. Lack of killing; permitting to live.
   • 1993, Ven. S. Dhammika, Seven Pillar Edicts, 7, translation of original by Ashoka the Great:

     […] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.

   • 1994, Grolier Incorporated, Academic American encyclopedia, page 165:

     Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […]

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

     […] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic

3. (countable) An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).
   • 1991, Kent Greenawalt, Religious Convictions and Political Choice, page 105:

     […] 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.

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

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

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

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

Translations

A precept or worldview

• Arabic: لَا قَتْل (lā qatl)
• Basque: hiltzerik-ez
• Bulgarian: неубийство (neubijstvo)
• Catalan: no-matar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無殺戮／无杀戮 (wú shālù)

• Cree: É-nipathtákániwahk
• Czech: nezabíjení
• Danish: ikkedrab
• Dutch: niet-doding
• Egyptian Arabic: عدم القتل (al-qatl)
• Esperanto: nemortigo
• Finnish: tappamattomuus
• French: non-meurtre f
• Galician: non matar m
• Greek: απόλεμος (el) m (apólemos)
• Guaraní: ani japorojuka
• Haitian Creole: pa touye
• Hawaiian: Hakakā ʻole
• Hebrew: אל-הרג
• Hungarian: gyilkolásmentesség
• Igbo: egbughị egbu
• Indonesian: anti-pembunuhan
• Interlingua: non-occider
• Irish: neamh-mharú
• Italian: nonuccidere m
• Japanese: 不殺生 (fusesshō)
• Korean: 비살생(不殺生) (bisalsaeng)
• Lithuanian: nežudymas
• Maori: patungakore
• Norwegian: ikkedrap
• Polish: niezabijanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: não matar m
• Romani: bi-mudaripen
• Romanian: nonucidere
• Russian: неприя́тие уби́йства n (neprijátije ubíjstva)
• Sanskrit: अहिंसा (sa) (ahiṃsā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: neubijanje m

• Sinhalese: [script needed] (nirghatha)
• Slovak: nezabíjení
• Slovene: neubijanje
• Spanish: no-matar m
• Swedish: ickedödande
• Tagalog: walang-pagpatay
• Thai: การไม่ฆ่า (gaan mâi kâa)
• Turkish: öldürmeme (tr)
• Ukrainian: не вбивати (ne vbyvaty)
• Waray-Waray: diri-pagpatay

See also

• ahimsa
• nonlethal
• nonviolence
• satyagraha

References

Wikiversity

• "Nonkilling: A New Paradigm" International Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press, New York (2009)
• "Nonkilling Political Science" Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, 2nd Edition. Elsevier, San Diego (2008)
• "Nonkilling Global Society" Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). EOLSS Publishers, Oxford (2004)
• Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, 1st ed. (2002); 3rd ed. (2009)