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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ahimsa /əˈhɪmsɑː/

▶noun (in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition) respect for all living things and avoidance of violence towards others.

– origin Sanskrit, from a ‘non-, without’ + hiṃsā ‘violence’.

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