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Definition of Oversights
1. oversight [n] - See also: oversight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversights
Literary usage of Oversights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"The night parted them, when nothing else could; and each party had then time to
revolve the oversights of the day. The enemy had fared at least as well as ..."
2. Greek Refinements: Studies in Temperamental Architecture by William Henry Goodyear (1912)
"The explanation of all these oversights is that curvature is the universal and
normal optical appearance of all perspective lines, and that the observer has ..."
3. Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being by James Frederick Ferrier (1854)
"Our natural oversights in regard to knowing and the known, are taken up and put
right in the epistemology ; our natural oversights in regard to ignorance ..."
4. A Treatise Concerning the Right Use of the Fathers in the Decision of by Jean Daillé (1856)
"... that when they wrote they had no intention of being our authorities in matters
of religion; as evinced by examples of their mistakes and oversights. ..."
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