incident

incident
incident, incidental adjectives.
Incident has been almost entirely replaced as an adjective by incidental, so that a sentence such as Those in the highest station have their incident cares and troubles now sounds decidedly dated. This freeing of incident from its older role as an adjective has coincided with its greatly increased use as a noun with the meaning ‘a particular episode or distinct event receiving general attention’, a use in which it can refer to a wide range of events from the most important (terrorist attacks, leakages of radiation from nuclear power stations, and so on) to the most minor or trivial (domestic arguments, demonstrations at meetings, traffic mishaps, etc.). In police use it has a special application reflected in the compound forms incident book, incident room, etc., in which incident is not an adjective but the noun used attributively.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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