non-occurring
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That does not occur.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Mrs. Eversley said she talked with Elaine Rehman about patients who complained they were billed for non-occurring hospital visits from the doctor."
- "But after surviving Y2K and all its non-occurring tragedies, we now use that expression to mean something that occurred just seven years ago."
- "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."
- "[…]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[…]"
- "So the absence of anophelines is doubtless the reason of the nonoccurring of malaria in Nemi."