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
Poor boy, the check to his studies disappointed him, and he spent every leisure moment over his Latin accidence or in reading.
From Under the Storm by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The salutation was addressed to the Captain, now emerging from the back parlour with a most transparent and utterly futile affectation of coming out by accidence.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Instead of aspiring to the mastery of accidence and syntax, he aimed rather at securing immunity from the rod.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
