accidence

Example Sentences

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The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2017

Paul's Accidence is therefore probably the oldest grammar that can now be found in our language.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

He also appears to have been at George Alley Gate, St. Botolph's parish, where he printed, but without date, Stanbridge's Accidence.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Indeed, for ought I can understand, he never learned no further then his Accidence, as we may learn from his own Words in one of his Books.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley

The Phonology is followed by an Accidence, which discusses the peculiarities of dialect grammar.

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