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inadvertency

inadvertency noun: inadvertence; heedlessness.

Noun

inadvertency (plural inadvertencies)

  1. Inadvertence; heedlessness.
    • Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers.1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →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: […]1680, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

Forms of inadvertency

pluralinadvertencies

Questions about inadvertency

What does inadvertency mean?
Inadvertency means inadvertence; heedlessness.
What part of speech is inadvertency?
Inadvertency is a noun.
What is the plural of inadvertency?
The plural of inadvertency is inadvertencies.

Words near inadvertency in the dictionary

  1. inadmittable
  2. inadventurous
  3. inadvertence
  4. inadvertences
  5. inadvertencies
  6. inadvertency
  7. inadvertent
  8. inadvertently
  9. inadvisability
  10. inadvisable
  11. inadvisableness

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