| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| accidence |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ac·ci·dence |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   k s -d ns, -d ns |
| NOUN: | The section of morphology that deals with the inflections of words. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Late Latin accidentia, from Latin accid ns, accident-, accident. See accident.
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