eventuate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]American English, from Latin ēventu(s) (“an event, happening”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), perhaps modeled after actuate.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]eventuate (third-person singular simple present eventuates, present participle eventuating, simple past and past participle eventuated)
- (intransitive) To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result in. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: end up, result, turn outoccur, develop, ensue, materialize
- 1847, Karl Marx (Writing in Northern Star), Marx Engels Collected Works, volume 6, page 290:
- Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the empancipation of the proletariat.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:
- Enoch Powell appeared to insult the memory of Dr. King by making a speech warning that “colored” immigration to Britain would eventuate in bloodshed.
- 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
- These efforts would eventuate in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, yet another piece of legislation that struck at a principle of the New Deal order.
- (intransitive) To happen as a result; to come about. [from 19th c.]
- Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire; see also Thesaurus:happen
- 2004, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, Fiji Senate Speech, 22 October 2004:
- Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.