negligencyn.

a1500 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 123 (MED) For trewly oure entent was wel to do; And if ony fawte be þer fowndyn, it is oure neglygensy.

1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. lx For ones he dyd the offence: whiche natwithstandynge was byfore the excuse were made: ascribed vnto chaunce or negligencie [etc.].

1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 114 Either by the munificency of our Kings, or by the too much negligency of our Common-wealth.

1774 A. Smith Let. 20 Sept. in Corr. (1977) cxliii. 173 They are perhaps..as unexceptionable as any public institutions of that kind, which all contain in their very nature the seeds and causes of negligency and corruption, have ever been, or are ever likely to be.

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) ix. 245 The negligency of that trust which carries God with it.

1961 Industr. & Labor Relations Rev. 15 (advt.) Negligency and accidents.

1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 65 Theire severall absences, negligencies and misbehaviours..given up by the monitours in their bille.

1768 G. Mason Ess. Design in Gardening 48 These are too much labour'd to give an equal respite to the attention with natural negligencies.

1800 Marquess Wellesley Let. 5 Mar. in Select. Despatches (1877) 653 The loss sustained by their negligencies or errors infinitely overbalances the expense of providing for them at the public charge.

1995 D. Donoghue Walter Pater xxi. 229 They come upon possibilities, contingencies, negligencies, and take them up.