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}.