A variant or alternative form of accidence, referring to the grammar of word inflections.
From Latin accidentia, with -y suffix creating a noun variant. Similar in meaning to accidence but less commonly used.
The existence of both 'accidence' and 'accidency' shows how older English created multiple versions of the same concept—it's like having 'accident' and 'accidency' meaning slightly different shades of the same idea.
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