accidently

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accidently

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From Middle English accidently, accidentli (“by chance; temporarily; artificially”), equivalent to accident + -ly.

adverb more accidently · most accidently

nonstandard Accidentally; by chance, unintentionally. [T]he exceptions remind me of an ingenious conjecture respecting Newton: that he was probably a being of a superior order, accidently caged in a human body.

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@misc{accidently_2026,
  title = {accidently},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/accidently},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}