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Meanings of purely accidental in English

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Usage of purely accidental in English
1
It is due to purely accidental causes; it results from mere contingencies.
Penguin Island
2
The manner in which he first attracted my attention was purely accidental.
Urban Sketches
3
Our meeting in this place is purely accidental-providential , Iwillrather say.
The Good Time Coming
4
However, our meeting was purely accidental, and so I hope for pardon.
Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains
5
The formation of the company known as the Donner Party was purely accidental.
The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
6
If there was any pedagogy connected with the work, it was purely accidental.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
7
It was purely accidental that he saw Patti to-night or recalled her art.
The Drums of Jeopardy
8
Sometimes pricking is purely accidental, as in the case of a 'split' nail.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
9
Whatever happens must not appear to have been prearranged, but be purely accidental.
Miss Caprice
10
The inversion on these particular plates was, probably, purely accidental.
The Stamps of Canada
11
If any such resemblance occurs, we think it purely accidental.
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
12
For this purely accidental occurrence I was severely blamed, yet
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
13
Is the giving of the names of streams to both of them purely accidental?
Cratylus
14
And who would be catching this accidental, purely accidental, juxtaposition?
Valis
15
After all, the lad's death had been purely accidental, wanton.
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
16
It's currently unclear whether the blaze was started intentionally, or if this was purely accidental.
The South African
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United Kingdom
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