Non-occurring
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The instance of something not occurring. uncountable
"The non-occurring of cholera in New York in the autumn of 1892 was not due in any important degree to the quarantine; but infinitely more to the fact that the other conditions did not prevail."
- 1 That does not occur. not-comparable
"The account, which that very ancient Father really gives of the matter, differs toto cœlo from that, which, through the medium of a non-occurring citation, is gravely ascribed to him by Dr. Wiseman."
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More examples"The account, which that very ancient Father really gives of the matter, differs toto cœlo from that, which, through the medium of a non-occurring citation, is gravely ascribed to him by Dr. Wiseman."
Etymology
From non- + occurring.
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