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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Inadvertence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as inadvertence.

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  • noun inadvertence or heedlessness

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities

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Examples

  • I am, however, far from intending to insinuate, that feelings of this nature will prevail on your Lordship to consider real blemishes merely as the effects of an inadvertency, which is excusable in proportion to the intricacy of a subject.

    An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients John Ogilvie 1772

  • I much prefer how it looks here to the appearance of the 70mm print that turned up in Britain last year, faded to amber appropriately elegiac, maybe, but that kind of inadvertency can pall.

    VIDEO WATCHDOG's Favorite DVDs of 2008 2008

  • I much prefer how it looks here to the appearance of the 70mm print that turned up in Britain last year, faded to amber appropriately elegiac, maybe, but that kind of inadvertency can pall.

    Archive 2008-12-14 2008

  • Hereupon Nur al-Huda laughed till she fell backwards and rolled round on her side. 145 Then she said to him, “O my friend, take thy time and observe me attentively: answer me at thy leisure what I shall ask thee and put away from thee insanity and perplexity and inadvertency for relief is at hand.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This inadvertency of having placed one for the other is a fault which must be corrected.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It is not easy for the mind to put off those confused notions and prejudices it has imbibed from custom, inadvertency, and common conversation.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • If it is so in your world it is so by inadvertency.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Kind speeches like these addressed by a little girl to a gentleman, and spoken by a strange inadvertency in company, and when other gentlemen and ladies were present, were not likely to render Mr. Warrington very eager for the society of the young American lady.

    The Virginians 2006

  • He was no sooner waked from his reverie, than he begged pardon, and offered to make all proper concessions for what he had done through mere inadvertency.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Adeline, observing the change, at first attributed it to accident, and afterwards to a temporary displeasure, arising from some little inadvertency in her conduct.

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

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