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noun

Inadvertency, Inadvertence n.

The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. "Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers."

An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence. "The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact."

Synonyms: Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inadvertency" Quotes from Famous Books

... accounts it is, and many more, that a tradesman walks in continual jeopardy, from the looseness and inadvertency of men's tongues, ay, and women's too; for though I am all along very tender of the ladies, and would do justice to the sex, by telling you, they were not the dangerous people whom I had in view in my first writing upon this subject, yet I must ...

— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe

... causes of error—Doctrinal causes. Sec. 2. Elimination of weakly attested readings—nature of inquiry. Sec. 3. Smaller blemishes in MSS. unimportant except when constant. Sec. 4. Most mistakes arose from inadvertency: many from unfortunate design. ...

— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

... truly grieved at his inadvertency in disturbing the household at this late hour of the night, begged pardon, and told Mrs. McNab he would not be ...

— Adele Dubois - A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick • Mrs. William T. Savage

... appearance of a horseman, whose steed leaped the hedge so close to our hero as almost to endanger his safety. The rider, a gentleman of about five-and-twenty, pulled up, and in a tone of great courtesy apologized for his inadvertency; the apology was readily admitted, and the horseman rode onwards in the direction ...

— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... of a work, which an enlarged understanding either overlooks as insignificant, or contemplates as the mark of human imperfection. 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. I have been induced to throw together the preceding remarks, with an intention to rescue Lyric Poetry from the contempt in which it has been ...

— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie

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