occurrent

Current, actual, occurring.

Adjective

  1. Current, actual, occurring.
  2. Pertaining to occurrence; having to do with an occurrence.
    • I hold the occurrent belief that I'm writing this sentence
    • A clear example, although one drawn from a different situation, of unformulated yet occurrent belief would be that in which a clerk unrolls paper to wrap a parcel: there comes a moment when he believes that the length...
    • In such a case, my belief that the person I will meet is named Robert Barchi is clearly occurrent. - 2016, Douglas N. Husak, Ignorance of Law: A Philosophical Inquiry, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French occurrent and its source, Latin occurrēns.

Forms

more occurrent most occurrent

Noun

  1. An event, something that occurs.
    • 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...
  2. One who comes to meet another.

Forms

occurrents

Derived

occurrently