accidence

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The -n- is inserted, according to a law of Old Irish accidence, because �ed, "fire," is a neuter word.

From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart

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

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

But, for all that I am, and have done here, I need not have gone beyond my accidence.

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore