noninjury

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ injury

Noun[edit]

noninjury (uncountable)

  1. A practice or philosophy of not causing injury to others.
    • 1981, Vyāsa Patañjali, Yoga philosophy of Patañjali:
      It is not possible to practise noninjury unless selfishness is given up in respect of all external matters.
    • 2009, Katherine Wills Perlo, Kinship and Killing: The Animal in World Religions:
      Buddhist vegetarians ancient and modern argue from karmic interchangeability, from the supreme value of noninjury...

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Adjective[edit]

noninjury (not comparable)

  1. Not of or pertaining to injury.
    • 1986, John J Nance, Blind trust:
      In fact there had been two other noninjury accidents in 1976 and 1977...