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

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.

From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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 Dickens, Charles