What does nonkilling mean?
Nonkilling means Not engaging in killing..
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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, ....
I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices
(...) we encourage scientific research (...) to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies
[…] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.
Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […]
[…] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic
[…] 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.
But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly
Use nonkilling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nonkilling means Not engaging in killing..
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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, ....
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