Crossword clues for inadvertency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inadvertence \In`ad*vert"ence\; pl. -ces, Inadvertency \In`ad*vert"en*cy\; pl. -cies, n. [Cf. F. inadvertance.]
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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.
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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.
--Addison.Syn: Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.
Wiktionary
n. inadvertence or heedlessness
WordNet
n. the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities [syn: unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence] [ant: mindfulness, mindfulness]
Usage examples of "inadvertency".
And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.
But the Scriptures are full in it, and the Instances numerous, that the Almighty, Divine Being has this prerogative to make use of what Instrument he pleaseth, in Afflicting any, and consequently to commissionate Devils: And tho this word commissioning, in the Authors former Books, might be thought to be by inadvertency.