accidence
the rudiments or essentials of a subject.
Grammar.
the study of inflection as a grammatical device.
the inflections so studied.
Origin of accidence
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How to use accidence in a sentence
accidence: This has been sufficiently described in the texts mentioned above.
Inconsistent punctuation in subheaders (accidence: and similar) has been silently regularized.
It is supposed that during this time he wrote his valuable little book called The accidence.
Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.
Ulysses | James Joyce(c) accidence and etymology, which teaches us the nature of inflected forms and derivatives, and also how to use them.
The Principles of Language-Study | Harold E. Palmer
British Dictionary definitions for accidence
/ (ˈæksɪdəns) /
inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
Origin of accidence
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