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

Revised Examples in syntax, accidence and style, for criticism and correction.

From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan

Modern English, 1603-1900.—The grammar of the language was fixed before this period, most of the accidence having entirely vanished.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

His wally told me as he had shaved off his beard so nobody knowed him, but for fear of accidence he passes ewery Satterday and Sunday at a farm yard inland.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 by Various