Occurrent
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /əˈkʌɹənt/
Origin
From Middle French occurrent and its source, Latin occurrēns.
Noun
occurrent
(plural occurrents)- (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4: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.