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  • noun Plural form of negligency.

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Examples

  • Wherefore, we hold it expedient to exhort students upon various negligencies which can always be avoided, but which are wonderfully injurious to books.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • He pointed out the errors and negligencies of the late Boxon, declared it a scandal that a business such as this should have been allowed to fall off, and was full of ingenious ideas for a brilliant opening.

    Will Warburton George Gissing 1880

  • The plastic nature of man has in it an infinity of resources to retrieve the negligencies and repair the faults that she may have committed.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • The plastic nature of man has in it an infinity of resources to retrieve the negligencies and repair the faults that she may have committed.

    Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • As it was by its nature a work of defiance, a composition which would naturally be examined with the utmost acrimony of criticism, it was probably laboured with uncommon attention; and there are, indeed, few negligencies in the subordinate parts.

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

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