Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of eventuating; the act of falling out or happening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
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- noun The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
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Examples
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Thus is added to the chorus of voices singing the possible ways of saying Ereignis in English: from (i) not translating the word; to (ii) translating it as 'appropriation,' 'event of appropriation,' 'event' or 'Event,' 'eventuation'; to (iii) translating it as 'enowning.'
Archive 2008-06-01 enowning 2008
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Thus is added to the chorus of voices singing the possible ways of saying Ereignis in English: from (i) not translating the word; to (ii) translating it as 'appropriation,' 'event of appropriation,' 'event' or 'Event,' 'eventuation'; to (iii) translating it as 'enowning.'
enowning enowning 2008
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So they have been preparing for the last 50 years to the eventuation of confrontation militarily.
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So they have been preparing for the last 50 years to the eventuation of confrontation militarily.
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Even though that would include Scalia's resignation, an eventuation devoutly to be wished in my opinion, I think he's wrong.
Eschaton 2003
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Even though that would include Scalia's resignation, an eventuation devoutly to be wished in my opinion, I think he's wrong.
Archive 2003-08-01 2003
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The absolute absurdity of the universe is declared, in a bellow, once again, by the fact that Max Weider, age sixty, became infatuated with Cassie Doap, a completely ridiculous eventuation not unilateral in nature.
Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002
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Not one of the Nyueng Bao found any reason to celebrate that eventuation.
Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999
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Of course, their eyes, skin, tongue, breath, and lack of vim and vigor tell the story of a long process of self-poisoning, with every now and then the eventuation of a storm of foulness, called a bilious attack -- meaning an overflow of filth.
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The advance which has marked the development of every means of communication, transportation, manufacturing, &c., since Rome's day would give Germany, in the case of such an eventuation, a power which would have been inconceivable to the most ambitious Roman Emperor.
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