nonkilling

• non-killing

non- +‎ killing

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

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

• ahimsa
• nonlethal
• nonviolence
• satyagraha

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)