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malaccident en · NOUN

Etymology

From mal- + accident.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A bad event happening by accident; mischance.
    • I rely much on His goodness who has always guarded me against malaccidents, that he will not permit me to fall into such a snare, and that He will preserve me in the good report of the world till the end of my career. 1844, Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, page 307:

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