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nonsacrifice

nonsacrifice noun: absence of sacrifice.

Noun

nonsacrifice (uncountable)

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

Origin of nonsacrifice

From non- + sacrifice.

Questions about nonsacrifice

What does nonsacrifice mean?
Nonsacrifice means absence of sacrifice.
What part of speech is nonsacrifice?
Nonsacrifice is a noun.

Words near nonsacrifice in the dictionary

  1. nonsacerdotal
  2. nonsacral
  3. nonsacramental
  4. nonsacramentarian
  5. nonsacred
  6. nonsacrifice
  7. nonsacrificial
  8. nonsadist
  9. nonsadistic
  10. nonsadists
  11. nonsadomasochistic

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