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n. the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
Word Usage
"IĀ am, however, far from intending to insinuate, that feelings of this nature will prevail on your Lordship to consider real blemishes merely as the effects of an inadvertency, which is excusable in proportion to the intricacy of a subject."