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)

The nouns in Iroquois are varied, but with accidence differing from the Aryan and Semitic variations, some of the distinctions being more subtle, and, so to speak, metaphysical.

From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Hale, Horatio

He was a far more brilliant teacher than Lucy, and ten thousand times preferable to Mr. Adderley, who had once begun to teach Annora her accidence with lamentable want of success.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary