Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of proper care, heed, or attention; inadvertence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Inadvertence.
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- noun
inadvertence
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By misadvertence on our part, the Federals were able to concentrate their gunboats and be prepared for the attack, which was to have been a surprise, and so, like the King of
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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