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non-occurring

non-occurring adjective: that does not occur.

Adjective

non-occurring (not comparable)

  1. That does not occur.
    • 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.1840, George Stanley Faber, “Introduction”, in Christ’s Discourse at Capernaum, Fatal to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation; on the Very Principle of Exposition, Adopted by the Divines of the Roman...
    • Mrs. Eversley said she talked with Elaine Rehman about patients who complained they were billed for non-occurring hospital visits from the doctor.1962 November 6, “Rehman Defense Makes Trial Point”, in Independent, volume 25, number 60, Long Beach, Calif., page B-7
    Synonyms:
    unoccurring

Noun

non-occurring (uncountable)

  1. The instance of something not occurring.
    • 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.1900, The Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, page 311
    • […]there being no provision in the contract for the return of the money, the subsequent non-occurring of the event, or the event happening which makes the contract impossible of performance on both sides, does not entitle the plaintiff to recover his money[…]1903, The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, page 201
    Synonyms:
    nonoccurrence

Examples of non-occurring in a sentence

  • But after surviving Y2K and all its non-occurring tragedies, we now use that expression to mean something that occurred just seven years ago.2007 February 21, Don Ginnings, “It seems like only a century ago”, in The Index, Hermitage, Mo., page 2A:
  • However, investigations by electron microscope proved that the non-occurring of crystallization was illusory.1970, NHQ; the New Hungarian Quarterly, page 161:

Synonyms of non-occurring

Forms of non-occurring

alternative formnonoccurring

Origin of non-occurring

From non- + occurring.

Questions about non-occurring

What does non-occurring mean?
Non-occurring means that does not occur.
How do you use non-occurring in a sentence?
But after surviving Y2K and all its non-occurring tragedies, we now use that expression to mean something that occurred just seven years ago.
What part of speech is non-occurring?
Non-occurring can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near non-occurring in the dictionary

  1. non-obeisance
  2. non-obese
  3. non-observable
  4. non-obvious
  5. non-occurrent
  6. non-occurring
  7. non-offender
  8. non-offenders
  9. non-offensive
  10. non-official
  11. non-official cover

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