Non-occurring

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.