bevuen.
/ˈbeɪv(j)uː/ An error of inadvertence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > of inadvertence
oversight1531
overslip1584
scape1669
bevue1716
escape1844
Freudian slip1959
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. Pref. 3 The Follies of the Ignorant, the bevews of Government.
1813 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) IV. 71 He will content himself with avoiding such bevues in future.
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n.1716- indifferent cell
- indifferent critic
- indifferent judge
- indifferent justice
- indifferent point
- indifferent reader
- indifferent tissue
- indifferent-looking
- indifferent-minded
- indifferential
- indifferentiated
- indifferentism
- indifferentisms
- indifferentist
- indifferentists
- indifferentlooking
- indifferently
- indifferently well
- indifferentminded
- indifferentness
- indiffering
- indiffusible
- indifulvin
- indifuscin
- infant-sprinkling