accidence

Example Sentences

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I’ll make it good upon the accidence, body of me! that in speech is the devil’s paternoster.

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In English the syntax has been enlarged at the expense of the accidence; position has taken the place of forms.

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But with such minute exceptions, the accidence of the 16th century was the accidence of the 19th.

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There is no poverty in design or decoration, and no overdeveloped luxuriance, except for the accidence of the Renaissance tendencies of its time.

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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.

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