non-appearance en · NOUN
Etymology
From non- + appearance.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of nonappearance.
alt of nonappearance
Their non-appearance caused some serious issues and generated many passenger complaints in the early 1990s.
2024 April 17, Peter Plisner, “A fond farewell to Cross-City stalwarts”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 39:The strangest conjectures were made as to the cause of Mr. Floyer’s absence, and in the midst of her anxiety and alarm it struck Adeline with dismay to observe how unaccountable Mr. Lawson thought his friend’s non-appearance, and what concern he frequently expressed about it.
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 144–145:Inevitably there was disappointment at the non-appearance of the two vintage locomotives on three of the excursions, but obviously they could not be in two places at once.
1960 June, “Our Easter Excursions”, in Trains Illustrated, page viii: