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单词 accidence
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Definition of accidence in English:

accidence

noun ˈaksɪd(ə)nsˈæksədəns
mass noundated
  • The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He can make himself understood, given a few nouns, pronouns, verbs and numerals, without troubling himself in the slightest about accidence.
    • It was an approach primarily focused on syntax, accidence, and grammar with little attention focused on the culture, art, philosophy, science, religion, or the general society of ancient Greece and Rome.
    • He was sent to Gloucester Grammar School, but becoming ‘mired’ in his Latin accidence was apprenticed to a waterman, pressed for the navy, and was present at the siege of Cadiz.
    • His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.

Origin

Early 16th century: from late Latin accidentia (translation of Greek parepomena 'things happening alongside'), neuter plural of the present participle of accidere 'happen' (see accident).

 
 

Definition of accidence in US English:

accidence

nounˈæksədənsˈaksədəns
dated
  • The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was an approach primarily focused on syntax, accidence, and grammar with little attention focused on the culture, art, philosophy, science, religion, or the general society of ancient Greece and Rome.
    • He can make himself understood, given a few nouns, pronouns, verbs and numerals, without troubling himself in the slightest about accidence.
    • His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.
    • He was sent to Gloucester Grammar School, but becoming ‘mired’ in his Latin accidence was apprenticed to a waterman, pressed for the navy, and was present at the siege of Cadiz.

Origin

Early 16th century: from late Latin accidentia (translation of Greek parepomena ‘things happening alongside’), neuter plural of the present participle of accidere ‘happen’ (see accident).

 
 
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