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Definition of Inattentions
1. inattention [n] - See also: inattention
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inattentions
Literary usage of Inattentions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Typhoid Fever and Its Homoeopathic Treatment by Pierre August Rapou, Augustus Rapou (1853)
"The practice of this method consists essentially in these little details, where
errors and inattentions necessarily occur, and excite grievous troubles ..."
2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"gives other instances of the levities, vulgarities, disregards, inattentions and
inadequacies of these meetings. This poor covenant arrived at in this ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1888)
"It is possible what the Doctor says may be true, though it is probable his
indolence and general inattentions to these points may have deceived him. ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"How much offence would be given by accidental inattentions, or want of information?
The first step into such an undertaking ought to be well weighed. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"All the Wollstonecraft sisters were enthusiastic, excitable, apt to exaggerate
trifles, and to magnify inattentions into slights ; and Eliza had the family ..."
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