accidence
Example Sentences
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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
Over against these there were two comprehensive vices, barbarism and solecism, the one being an offence against accidence, the other against syntax.
From Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
I’m very sorry for this accidence, but I’m not to blame.
From The Irish Fairy Book by Various
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
