nonsacrifice

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ sacrifice

Noun[edit]

nonsacrifice (uncountable)

  1. Absence of sacrifice.
    • 2012, David Pan, Sacrifice in the Modern World, page 113:
      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 — []