Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of non-occurring.
A dinner given merely to enjoy the pleasure of entertaining one’s friends is a rare, if not nonoccurring, spectacle.
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 3512 more examples
Vandalism becomes virtually nonoccurring, except during vacations (which should tell us something about some students’ needs to be involved).
1975 February 18, Roger Toland, quoting Raymond Peterson, “Toland topics”, in Rapid City Journal, number 29632, Rapid City, S.D., page 14The 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).
1996, David Pesetsky, Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 305
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