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English
Noun
inadvertency (plural inadvertencies)
- Inadvertence; heedlessness.
1651–1653, Jer Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1655, →OCLC:Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers.
1680, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, , London: Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]