nonoccurring
See also: non-occurring
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nonoccurring (not comparable)
- Alternative form of non-occurring
- 1893 March, Robert Coltman, “Chinese Home Life”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXXV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, page 351:
- A dinner given merely to enjoy the pleasure of entertaining one’s friends is a rare, if not nonoccurring, spectacle.
- 1975 February 18, Roger Toland, quoting Raymond Peterson, “Toland topics”, in Rapid City Journal, number 29632, Rapid City, S.D., page 14:
- Vandalism becomes virtually nonoccurring, except during vacations (which should tell us something about some students’ needs to be involved).
- 1996, David Pesetsky, Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 305:
- The other possibility is to give -ation a unique analysis as -ate + ion and to allow morphology to produce *documentate as a possible but nonoccurring word (perhaps blocked by the verb document).