Meaning

That does not occur..

Definitions by Sense

1. That does not occur.
2. The instance of something not occurring.

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.

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

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.

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• nonoccurring

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