Nonsacrifice

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Absence of sacrifice. uncountable

    "Nonsacrifice is not the avoidance of death, but routinized death, death that is carried out as a matter of course. There is something natural about death without sacrifice in the nonhuman realm — […]"

Example

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"Nonsacrifice is not the avoidance of death, but routinized death, death that is carried out as a matter of course. There is something natural about death without sacrifice in the nonhuman realm — […]"

Etymology

From non- + sacrifice.

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