English Dictionary

nonkilling

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 可算名詞

A precept or worldview that affirms the possibility of a society where killing is absent. / Lack of killing; permitting to live.

日本語の意味

殺さないという規範、あるいは殺害が存在しない社会の可能性を肯定する世界観 / 殺害の欠如、すなわち生命を尊重し生きることを許容する状態

Her philosophy of nonkilling inspired the movement toward restorative justice.

彼女の、殺害のない社会の可能性を肯定する理念は、修復的司法への運動に影響を与えた。

意味（1）

A precept or worldview that affirms the possibility of a society where killing is absent.

yama, n.2: Yoga Philos. ii. 17 Râja Yoga is divided into eight steps. The first is Yama—non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving of any gifts.

意味（2）

Lack of killing; permitting to live.

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

意味（3）

(countable) An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).

... 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.

nonkillings （ plural ）