Definition of "nonkilling" []

• Not engaging in killing. (adjective)
• A precept or worldview that affirms the possibility of a society where killing is absent. (noun)
• Lack of killing; permitting to live. (noun)
• An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect). (noun)

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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."
• "Right from the inception of our movement we have been insisting that our society should be a nonkilling society."
• ""Tolstoy's core values were prophetic, and no doubt influenced the development of pacifism, the nonkilling paradigm and anarchism," said Tarasoff."