inadvertency

(ii) Inadvertency: When a man overlooks even that which he does know.

"We could not control such an inadvertency.

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

The wrong offering would require a piaculum, if due to inadvertency or necessity.

Though the mother of the new son had the emperor's love, her detrac- tors were numerous and alert to the slightest inadvertency.

"It's about the inadvertency of incidents that affect one's life forever," Mr. Azenberg said.

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

Any accidental use of the names of living people in a novel is virtually inevitable, and any such inadvertency in this book is unintentional.

The facsimiles of parts of Qian's notebooks appeared in 2004, and have similarly drawn criticism on account of blatant inadvertency.

The exceptionable passages, which inadvertency had thrown out, are here retrenched; and the work, upon the whole, will be found nearer perfection than it was in its original state."

You must have the courage to recognize it and the will to implement it, for our truth can no longer be hidden away in the dark recesses of inadvertency or neglect.

Passion, interest, inadvertency, mistake of his meaning, and a thousand odd reasons, or capricios, men's minds are acted by, (impossible to be discovered,) may make one man quote another man's words or meaning wrong.

But if from inexperience or inadvertency, anything should ever escape me inconsistent with propriety, I must entreat you, by putting it to its true cause and not to any want of respect, to pardon and excuse me.

It was found to be perforated behind; and this circumstance leaves it doubtful whether Desaix was killed by some unlucky inadvertency, while advancing at the head of his troops, or by the enemy when turning towards his men to encourage them.

The man's defence was that he had grown so used to the notices and had been so preoccupied with his work that he hadn't applied them to himself; he pleaded, in his defence, what is indeed in military affairs another serious crime, inadvertency.

If the landscape theme in the Parrish show has a marvelous inadvertency that invites us to make our own connections, "En Plein Air," opening tomorrow afternoon at the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, sets a very particular historical and geographical agenda.