noncorporal

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ corporal.

Adjective

noncorporal (not comparable)

1. Not corporal.
   • 1988 August 12, Albert Williams, “Take Time to Listen”, in Chicago Reader‎, archived from the original on 31 July 2021:

     Whiting takes the language of "enlightened" (noncorporal) methods of disciplining children and turns it into a Kafkaesque nightmare of ambiguous threats, disorienting double messages, and absurd lures as the goal of making the boy apologize becomes absorbed into the family members' struggle for authority and justification.