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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·ad·vert·ence pl. -ces , In·ad·vert·en·cy pl. -cies , n.
 1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence.
    Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers.   --Jer. Taylor.
 2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
    The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact.   --Addison.
 Syn: -- Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.
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