accidence
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It was Belgian's worst rail accidence since 2001 when eight people were killed and 12 were injured in a head-on collision between commuter trains outside Brussels.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2010
Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the mean time my wandering steps had early chanced upon a Spanish grammar, and I had begun those inquiries in it which were based upon a total ignorance of English accidence.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
Those of us who plead for an easy flowing style consider that she has an almost hypersensitive ear for errors in the use of the English accidence.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
There are to be no lessons in grammar or accidence as such, nor of course any verse compositions except for older boys specialising in classics.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
