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Accident, a soft term used to denote the situation of a confiding girl, when an undue advantage has been taken of her by a faithless swain, without affording her a legitimate right to his protection, -

When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray.

Source: Brockett John Trotter. A Glossary of North Country Words in use with Etymology and affinity to other languages and occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions. Printed Newcastle upon Tyne 1829.