occurrent

English

Etymology

From Middle French occurrent and its source, Latin occurrēns.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkʌɹənt/

Adjective

occurrent (comparative more occurrent, superlative most occurrent)

  1. Current, actual, occurring.

Noun

occurrent (plural occurrents)

  1. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 4:
      the only comfort (saith Jovius) he had to ease his melancholy thoughts, was to hear news, and to listen after those ordinary occurrents, which were brought him cum primis, by letters or otherwise, out of the remotest parts of Europe.
  2. One who comes to meet another.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

occurrent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of occurrō
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