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noun

Occurrence n.

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. "Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new."

Any event or incident; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life. "All the occurrence of my fortune."

Synonyms: See Event.

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Etymology of 'Occurrence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Occurrence" Quotes from Famous Books

... history of any series of events can be written soon after they have transpired. The idea of history implies correctness, impartiality and completeness; and it is of rare occurrence that all these requisites can be obtained in their fullness within a brief period after the time of which the history is required. The historians of this day write of the past; and the historian of our present ...

— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various

... delinquent sends in a hasty regret leaving little or no time to fill that terror of all dinner-givers, that skeleton at the feast, an empty chair. One such failure is sufficient to ruin the most carefully-arranged table and is an injury to host and hostess that only the occurrence of some ...

— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

... of sin is of frequent occurrence at an "experience meeting," but the real confession of a sinful action is very rare. Therefore the Garthowen family required strong moral courage to enable them to pass through the trying ordeal of the Sciet, and its fiat of ...

— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine

... will be a fine day! I was afraid it never, never would come; or that, if it ever came, it would be a rainy day!' Five-and-forty years ago, children's pleasures in a country town were very simple, and Molly had lived for twelve long years without the occurrence of any event so great as that which was now impending. Poor child! it is true that she had lost her mother, which was a jar to the whole tenour of her life; but that was hardly an event in the sense referred to; and besides, she had been too young to ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... historian, "of truly religious sentiments and magnanimous proselytism very natural to the Duke of Guise, the most moderate and humane of the chiefs of the Catholic army, and whose brilliant generosity had been but temporarily obscured by the occurrence at Vassy." ...

— Henry IV, Makers of History • John S. C. Abbott

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