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
Poor boy, the check to his studies disappointed him, and he spent every leisure moment over his Latin accidence or in reading.
From Under the Storm by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Modern English, 1603-1900.—The grammar of the language was fixed before this period, most of the accidence having entirely vanished.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
She had worked even at the Latin accidence, fondly hoping that she might be capable of instructing him in that language.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
