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inadvertence|ɪnədˈvɜːtəns|
[ad. Schol.L. inadvertentia: see next and -ence. Cf. OF. inavertance (Oresme, 14th c.), inadvertance.]
The fact or habit of being inadvertent; want of advertence, failure to observe or pay attention; inattention; also = inadvertency.
1568in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 36 He who slayes any upon suddentie and inadvertence. 1669Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 100 Incogitance, inadvertence, not thinking at all, not considering anything, which is degrading ourselves..by renouncing the faculties of a reasonable soul. 1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1842 II. 184 The said letter..was, through inadvertence, laid before the board. 1872J. G. Murphy Comm. Lev. v. 18 The offences..are invariably acts of inadvertence. 1875Poste Gaius i. Introd. (ed. 2) 14 Inadvertence to the consequences of commission may be called heedlessness.
b. with an and pl. An instance of this; an act or fault of inattention; an oversight.
1725Watts Logic ii. iv. §3 Such an Inadvertence or Mistake will expose you to great Error in Judgment. 1876M. E. Braddon Dead Men's Shoes I. i. 6 Marriage is one of those inadvertences which can hardly go for nothing even in the easiest life. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. xv. 257 The mind broods over some passing inadvertence or fancied neglect till it assumes gigantic dimensions. |