Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
INADVERTENCE
unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency
(noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
oversight, inadvertence
(noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
inadvertence (countable and uncountable, plural inadvertences)
The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.
Source: Wiktionary
In`ad*vert"ence; pl. -ces (, In`ad*vert"en*cy; pl. -cies (, n. Etym: [Cf. F. inadvertance.]
1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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