non-occurring

See also: nonoccurring

English

Alternative forms

• nonoccurring

Etymology

From non- +‎ occurring.

Adjective

non-occurring (not comparable)

1. That does not occur.
   • 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 Church, and Suicidally Maintained by Dr. Wiseman: Associated with Remarks on Dr. Wiseman’s Lectures on the Principal Doctrines and Practices of the (Roman) Catholic Church, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, page lxii:

     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.

   • 1962 November 6, “Rehman Defense Makes Trial Point”, in Independent, volume 25, number 60, Long Beach, Calif., page B-7:

     Mrs. Eversley said she talked with Elaine Rehman about patients who complained they were billed for non-occurring hospital visits from the doctor.

   • 2007 February 21, Don Ginnings, “It seems like only a century ago”, in The Index, Hermitage, Mo., page 2A:

     But after surviving Y2K and all its non-occurring tragedies, we now use that expression to mean something that occurred just seven years ago.

Synonyms

• unoccurring

Noun

non-occurring (uncountable)

1. The instance of something not occurring.
   • 1900, The Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, page 311:

     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.

   • 1903, The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, page 201:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1933, Rivista di malariologia, page 314:

     So the absence of anophelines is doubtless the reason of the nonoccurring of malaria in Nemi.

   • 1970, NHQ; the New Hungarian Quarterly, page 161:

     However, investigations by electron microscope proved that the non-occurring of crystallization was illusory.

   • 1976, J. R. T. M. Peters, God’s Created Speech: A Study in the Speculative Theology of the Muʿtazilî Qâḍîl-Quḍât Abû L-Ḥasan ʿAbd Al-Jabbâr Bn Aḥmad Al-Hamaḏânî, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 197:

     The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.