nonoccurring

See also: non-occurring

English

Adjective

nonoccurring (not comparable)

1. 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).