accidence

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

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

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

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

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.