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

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

The fulness of the Vocabulary in the Dictionary, and the minuteness of the account of the phonology and accidence in the Grammar, leave nothing to desire.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)