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

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

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew

The utter futility of the old accidence has been inferred from it, and urged, even in some well-written books, with all the plausibility of a fair and legitimate deduction.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

I’m very sorry for this accidence, but I’m not to blame.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various