nonkillingEtymologyFrom non- + killing.adjNot 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, ....”nounLack of killing; permitting to live.“[…] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.”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.”