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Definitions: Negligence |
NegligenceNoun1. Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances. 2. The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "negligence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Military & Defense | Culpable carelessness in which a person does not exercise the care which is required of him in the circumstances or on account of his personal situation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In a legal sense, a failure upon the part of a mine operator to observe for the protection of the interests of the miner that degree of care, precaution, and vigilance that the circumstances justly demand, wherebythe miner suffers injury. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Negligence, Neglect. Negligence is the habit, neglect the act, of leaving things undone. The adjectives negligent and neglectful should, in like manner, be discriminated. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(1) In the realm of criminal common law, criminal negligence is a legal term of art for a state of mind which is careless, inattentive, neglectful, wilfully blind, or reckless; it is the mens rea part of a crime which, if occurring simulaneously with the actus reus, gives rise to criminal liability. Some distinguish recklessness from negligence; recklessness is a 'malfeasance' that increases the danger of an act occurring; whereas criminal negligence is a misfeasance or nonfeasance, merely allowing otherwise avoidable dangers to manifest. This is an example of the difference between a general intent crime and a specific intent crime with recklessness being more specific than criminal negligence. In some cases this 'nonfeasance' can rise to the level of wilful blindness where the individual intentionally avoid confronting a situation that no reasonable person would ever allow to occur. Gross criminal negligence is behavior which involves a "wanton disregard for human life". Of course, in all these cases if the actus reus or bad act never occurs then there is no crime as both elements are necessary under the criminal common law to sustain a guilty conviction.
Usually the punishment for criminal negligence, criminal recklessness, criminal endangerment, wilful blindness and other related crimes is imprisonment, unless the criminal is insane (and then in some cases the sentence is indeterminate). Examples of criminally negligent crimes are criminally negligent homicide and negligent endangerment of a child.
See also : culpability
(2) Under civil common law, negligence is an ingredient of many non-intentional torts or wrongs that one individual suffers because of the nonfeasance, misfeasance or malfeasance of another. As opposed to the common law tradition of most Anglo-American jurisdictions, in civil law legal systems (such as continental Europe, Quebec and Puerto Rico) negligence is classified as a form of extra-contractual responsibility called a quasi-delict (in distinction to the more wilful delicts) within the conceptual framework of the Law of Obligations. The rules and elements are not the same as those set forth below under the Anglo-American common law tradition.
A lawsuit grounded in a claim of negligence might be brought, for example,
by someone injured in an auto accident against another driver who he felt
caused the accident by being reckless or irresponsible.
Under law, negligence is usually defined in the context of
jury instructions wherein a judge, in language he finds fitting, tells
the jury that a party is to be considered negligent if he or she failed
to exercise the level of care that a reasonable person, possessed of
the same knowledge, would have exercised under the same circumstances.
In most jurisdictions, it is necessary to show first that a person had
a duty to exercise care in a given situation, and that he breached that duty.
In order to prove negligence, it is not necessary to prove harm, but
in order for a cause of action to rest in tort, harm must be proven.
Hence, it would be meaningless to sue someone for negligence if
no harm resulted.
Conversely, it is not enough that a harm was done.
In order for the harm to be compensible in a negligence lawsuit, the
defendant must be shown to have been negligent, and it must be
demonstrated that his negligence was the proximate cause of the harm
felt by the plaintiff.
The law holds that any reasonable person would, if able, follow the law.
Consequently, as a matter of law, a person may be declared by a court liable
as a matter of law ("negligence per se") if it is proven that he or she
broke the law. For example, someone injuring another in an auto accident may be found negligent per se in a civil suit arising from the accident if he was
convicted in criminal court of driving while intoxicated at the time
of the accident.
It is often observed by practitioners in tort law that a prospective
plaintiff who has a poor understanding of the foregoing principles
will desire to see a significant monetary penalty applied as a result
of the outrageousness of a defendant's act. He may feel that he "deserves" an award all out of proportion to his actual misfortune, because of the severe nature of the defendant's carelessness. This is a mistaken view of the authority of the law. Damages are awarded in proportion to the scope of the harm done, not the severety of the negligence. "But he was so careless, he could have killed me!" falls on deaf ears in American courts. Still, some negligent acts are recognized as a matter of law to be so egregious as to merit financial penalty over and above actual damages, in order to reform the conduct of a malicious or callously indifferent defendant, and, by example, others similarly disposed. This is the purpose of punitive damages.
Such acts are rare indeed, well defined in the law of applicable
jurisdictions, and limited to the exact conditions of the law under which
they may be awarded.
Only when the severity of negligence rises to an extreme level (and then,
only when harm results therefrom) might it meet the standards required
under laws providing for punitive damages.
A negligence lawsuit involves many components which need to be considered
before the success of the case can be determined.
Proving negligence is far more complicated than it may seem.
When considering a negligence cause of action there are four primary elements which need to be viewed and covered thoroughly: (1)duty, (2) breach of duty, (3) causation, and (4) damages.
(1) The duty element is the legal requirement that the person being sued for negligence must adhere to a standard of conduct in protecting others from unreasonable risk of harm.
It really is the legal obligation we have in our relationships with others.
Different duties apply to different people.
(2) Breaching that duty is the second element to a negligence lawsuit. The question to be asked is: ''Would a reasonable person in a similar
situation have done the same thing as the person being sued?'' To come to that conclusion both objective and subjective standards need to be considered.
(3) The causation of negligence is the third critical element of the lawsuit.
Both actual cause and proximate cause are considered.
'Actual cause asks the question of whether the person being sued,
the defendant, was the actual cause of injuries sustained by the person
initiating the lawsuit, the plaintiff.
Proximate cause looks at the issue of foreseeability.
When considering the event that has happened, it is asked whether or not
the injuries sustained were foreseeable or too remotely connected to
the incident to even consider.
(4) The final element of a negligence lawsuit is the damages being sought.
Damages are what the plaintiff is seeking in recovering for the incident resulting from the negligent act.
While most lawsuits are settled when a negligence lawsuit goes to trial, the judge will determine what the defendant's duty was to the plaintiff as a matter of law using the standard of reasonableness.
If it is questionable what a reasonable person would do, in the United Staets jury picked by the adversaries (plaintiff and defendant) will consider the facts and render a decision as well as determine the quantum of damages.
Sometimes the trier of fact will be the judge -- this has been the case in England since the 19th century and is generally the case in the other Commonwealth countries. Negligence in private law
Negligence in common law countries
Components of a negligence cause of action
The duty element
The breach of duty element
The causation element
The necessity for damages: element four
Legal procedures in negligence lawsuits
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Negligence."
Synonyms: NegligenceSynonyms: carelessness (n), neglect (n), neglectfulness (n), nonperformance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neglect | Noun: neglect; carelessness; Adjective: trifling; Verb: negligence; omission, oversight, laches, default; supineness; (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance; (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; (disorder), (dirt); improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness; (error). |
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Crosswords: Negligence |
| English words defined with "negligence": breach of trust ♦ comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, contributory negligence, criminal negligence, Culpa, culpable negligence ♦ dereliction ♦ Forslouthe, Foul copy ♦ Inapplication ♦ Lache ♦ Misprision ♦ Neglection ♦ res ipsa loquitur ♦ Slowenly ♦ To draw on ♦ vouch in. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "negligence": Captain's protest, condition precedent of the policy, condition precedent to liability ♦ Feast, felony committed through negligence ♦ Gas, Gold ♦ Jail ♦ Label ♦ Medical Errors, misdemeanour committed through negligence ♦ Neglect, negligent assault, negligent homicide, negligent manslaughter ♦ reckless bankruptcy and reduction of assets, right ♦ Shooting ♦ Tanker Owner's Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for Oil Pollution, Tumble. (references) |
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Screenplays | I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naveté, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) Slight negligence in his upbringing. (Cahill U.S. Marshal; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Part 2: A Little Bit of Negligence Explosives - Accidents (1963) | |
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Owen Felltham | Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Secondly, In the state of nature there wants a known and indifferent judge, with authority to determine all differences according to the established law: for every one in that state being both judge and executioner of the law of nature, men being partial to themselves, passion and revenge is very apt to carry them too far, and with too much heat, in their own cases; as well as negligence, and unconcernedness, to make them too remiss in other men's. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is a negligence of a badly paid clerk. |
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Children | Tuvalu | A government investigation completed in April 2000 found that no negligence occurred. (references) |
El Salvador | In 2000 the ISPM reported approximately 1,600 cases of mistreatment, 267 cases of negligence, and 411 cases of abandonment. (references) | |
El Salvador | Through November 30, it reported 1,246 cases of physical mistreatment, 310 cases of negligence, and 450 cases of abandonment. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | Chakravarty reported on irregularities at the local hospital and negligence by nurses and doctors. (references) |
Economic History | Norway | This shall not apply if the other party can prove that such failure is not due to error or negligence on his or her part. (references) |
Brazil | For example, once the agent-principal contract is signed, a Brazilian agent is protected by Brazilian law from unilateral termination of the contract by the foreign company without "just cause." This may be triggered by the agent's negligence or breach of contract; acts by the agent damaging to the foreign firm, etc. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | The CNLT alleged criminal negligence by prison authorities in both cases. (references) |
Malawi | These deaths involved possible use of excessive force or possible negligence. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | If the court finds that the shooting was unjustifiable or due to negligence, the police officers involved are tried. (references) | |
Political Rights | Armenia | The Central Election Commission blamed the omissions on the negligence of some civil servants. (references) |
Fiji | The Police Commissioner returned from leave in October 2000, after a disciplinary hearing before the Chief Justice was completed concerning his alleged negligence, alleged involvement in planning the coup, and other misdeeds in connection with the coup attempt. (references) | |
Women | Mexico | The CNDH therefore recommended that the state attorney general and the mayor of Ciudad Juarez be investigated for negligence; however, no action was taken. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | When serious or fatal industrial accidents occur, the authorities often fail to fully investigate and assign responsibility for negligence, if any. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. The first of these rights was once universally believed to be derived directly from the will of God; and this is still sometimes affirmed in partibus infidelium outside the enlightened realms of Democracy; as the well known lines of Sir Abednego Bink, following: By what right, then, do royal rulers rule? Whose is the sanction of their state and pow'r? He surely were as stubborn as a mule Who, God unwilling, could maintain an hour His uninvited session on the throne, or air His pride securely in the Presidential chair. Whatever is is so by Right Divine; Whate'er occurs, God wills it so. Good land! It were a wondrous thing if His design A fool could baffle or a rogue withstand! If so, then God, I say (intending no offence) Is guilty of contributory negligence. |
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| "Negligence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Negligence" is used about 1,238 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.31% | 1,217 | 6,398 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.69% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,238 | N/A |
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Expressions using "negligence": comparative negligence ♦ concurrent negligence ♦ Contributory negligence ♦ criminal negligence ♦ culpable negligence ♦ felony committed through negligence ♦ gross negligence ♦ misdemeanour committed through negligence ♦ take smb. to task for negligence ♦ wanton negligence ♦ wilful negligence. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "negligence": negligence-latent, negligence-personal, negligence-structural. | |
Ending with "negligence": no-negligence, professional-negligence. | |
Containing "negligence": premises-negligence-personal. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nursing home negligence | 126 |
medical negligence | 107 |
negligence | 106 |
clinical negligence | 28 |
professional negligence | 21 |
contributory negligence | 20 |
negligence lawyer | 20 |
attorney california elder negligence | 16 |
hospital negligence | 14 |
gross negligence | 14 |
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| Language | Translations for "negligence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | agtelosigheid (carelessness), agteloosheid (carelessness). (various references) | |
Albanian | shkujdesje (carelessness, disregard, ease, improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laxity, lightness, thoughtlessness, unconcern, untidiness), pakujdesi (carelessness, default, imprudence), mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, neglect, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub), moskokëçarje (carelessness, indifference, insensibility, nonchalance). (various references) | |
Arabic | غفلة (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, prepuce), إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, malpractice, neglect, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опущение (dereliction, neglect, omission), нехайство (carelessness, improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laches, remissness), небрежност (forgetfulness, laches, neglect, remissness), небрежен външен вид, неизпълнение (defection, neglect), занемареност (disrepair, neglect), безредие (anarchy, clutter, disarray, disorder, embroilment, imbroglio, misrule, pandemonium, pell mell, untidiness), пропуск (blank, countersign, flaw, gap, lapse, omission, out, oversight, pass, permit, pretermission, protection, safe conduct, skip, slip, slip up). (various references) | |
Chinese | 疏忽 (neglect). (various references) | |
Czech | nenucenost (ease, informality, nonchalance, spontaneity), nedbalost (carelessness, laxity, offhandedness, slackness). (various references) | |
Danish | forsømmelighed (abandonment, neglect). (various references) | |
Dutch | nalatigheid (carelessness, nonfeasance, remissness), onachtzaamheid (carelessness, inattention), nonchalance (carelessness, remissness), achteloosheid (carelessness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | neglektemo (carelessness, remissness), senatenteco (carelessness), malzorgeco (carelessness, remissness). (various references) | |
Farsi | فروگذاشت , فراموشکاری , قصور (Debt, Default, Delinquency, Shortcoming), غفلت (Default, Forget, Neglect, Omission), اهمال (Dodge, Neglect). (various references) | |
Finnish | leväperäisyys, laiminlyönti (failure, neglect, nonfeasance, omission), huolimattomuus (carelessness). (various references) | |
French | négligence (neglect). (various references) | |
German | fahrlässigkeit, nachlässigkeit (carelessness, inattentiveness, laxity, laxness, neglect, perfunctoriness, slackness, sloppiness, thoughtlessness). (various references) | |
Greek | αμέλεια (default, disregard, neglect, neglectfulness, perfunctoriness, remissness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פשיעות, פשיע" (crime, default, trespass), עזוב" (desertion, desolation), זלזול (contempt, derision, disparagement, disregard, disrespect, flippancy, irreverence, scorn), "תרשלות (slackness), "ז ח" (abandonment, dereliction, neglect, omission, rejection), בטל" (idleness, laziness, unemployment), רשל ות (remissness, slovenliness), רשול (carelessness, neglect, slovenliness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gondatlanság (carelessness, dereliction, imprudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, malpractice, neglect, recklessness), lenézés (contempt, disdain, disparagement), hanyagság (dereliction, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, indolence, laches, laxaty, neglect, nonchalance, recklessness, remissness, slothfulness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keteledoran (carelessness, default (payment), kealpaan (omission, shortcomming). (various references) | |
Italian | negligenza (abandonment, carelessness, laxity, neglect). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 慢 (carelessness, procrastination). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふゆきとどき (carelessness, incompetence, mismanagement), けたい (laziness), 'たい (laziness), ゆ " (unpreparedness), か"きゃく (audience, disregard, spectator), か"たい (armada, fleet, friendly reception, frigid zone, hospitality, laxity, warm reception, warm welcome), かりそめ (neglecting, slighting, temporariness, transience, trifle, trifling), とうか" (bitter cold, disregard, frost, mailing, make light of, neglect, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping), かたい (carelessness, certain, difficult, firm, hard, honorable, lower leg, lower limbs, lower part of the body, mistake, solemn, solid, steadfast, stubborn, stuffy writing, unpolished writing), ぎょうむじょうかしつ, ふかく (angle of dip, blunder, defeat, depression, failure, indiscretion, mistake), しっちゃく (mistake), な'やり (a javelin, carelessness), なおざり (disregard, make light of, neglect), おろそか (carelessness, neglect), お"たり (carelessness), たいま" (carelessness, procrastination), かいたい (absconding with money, becoming pregnant, conception, dismantling, laziness, pregnancy, regression). (various references) | |
Korean | 태만 (inadvertency, Neglect). (various references) | |
Manx | neuyeadys (neglect), neuyeadid (neglect), meerioose (carelessness, inattention, neglect, omission, thoughtlessness), meechurrym (neglect). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egligencenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | negligência (barratry, default, disregard, East, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incurious, lapse, misfeasance, neglect, omissions excepted). (various references) | |
Romanian | nepãsare (apathy, carelessness, casualness, disregard, indifference, laxity, listlessness, nonchalance, recklessness, remissness, sloth, unconcern), neglijenţã (carelessness, casualness, inadvertence, inadvertency, oversight, regardlessness, remissness, slovenliness), neatenţie (abstraction, distraction, forgetfulness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, listlessness, perfunctorines, want of care, wool gathering), scãpare (deliverance, escape, escapement, getaway, leakage, liberation, muff, omission, recourse, rescue, riddance, salvation, slip), omisiune (deficiency, flaw, omission, out, overlooking, oversight, slip), delãsare, aspect neglijent. (various references) | |
Russian | халатность. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nemarnost (carelessness, inattentiveness, sloppiness), nehat, nehaj (indifference), zanemarivanje (dereliction). (various references) | |
Spanish | negligencia (dereliction, laxity, malpractice, neglect, nonchalance, remissness). (various references) | |
Swedish | underlåtenhet (failure, nonfeasance, omission), slarv (carelessness, fribble, frivolity, inattention), oaktsamhet, försumlighet (delinquency). (various references) | |
Thai | ความไม่เอาใจใส่. (various references) | |
Turkish | umursamazlık (indifference, laxity, laxness, listlessness, nonchalance, recklessness, unconcern, unconcernedness), ihmalkârlık (carelessness, dereliction, laxity, laxness, offhandedness, remissness), ihmalcilik (carelessness, dereliction, laxity, laxness, offhandedness, remissness), ihmal (carelessness, criminal neglect, delinquency, disregard, failure, forgetfulness, inattention, neglect, omission, remissness, shortcoming), dikkatsizlik (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inobservance, oscitation, oversight, recklessness, want of care), özensizlik. (various references) | |
Ukranian | розв'язність (solubility, solvability), неуважність (absence, absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, obliviousness, oscitancy, oscitation, wool gathering), невимушеність (abandon, abandonment, ease, informality, repose), неохайність (dirtiness, grime, grubbiness, slapdash, untidiness), необережність, необачність (gaffe, haste, hastiness, misdoing, oversight, precipitance, precipitancy), недогляд (default, dereliction, erratum, inadvertence, inadvertency, neglect, omission, overlook, oversight), недбайливість (neglect), недбалість (backwardness, carelessness, laxity, looseness, neglect, nonchalance, offhandedness, oscitancy, oscitation, preterition, pretermission, slapdash), байдужість (apathy, callousness, cold-bloodedness, coldness, indifference, insensibility, nonchalance, oscitation, unconcern). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính lơ đễnh việc cẩu thả, tính cẩu thả (rashness). (various references) | |
Welsh | esgeulustod. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | culpa, culpae, culpam, neclegentia, neglegentia, neglegentia, neglegentiam, neglegentias, nequitia, nequitiae, nequitiam, nequitias. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 5, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Lalhson toiV uioiV israhl legwn anhr h gunh ostiV ean poihsh apo twn amartiwn twn anqrwpinwn kai paridwn paridh kai plhmmelhsh h yuch ekeinh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Loquere ad filios Israhel vir sive mulier cum fecerint ex omnibus peccatis quae solent hominibus accidere et per neglegentiam transgressi fuerint mandatum Domini atque deliquerint |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A man or womman, whanne thei doon of alle the synnes that ben wont to falle to men, and bi negligence ouer passid the maundement of the Lord, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Speake vnto the childern of Israel: whether it be man or woman whe they haue synned any maner of synne which a man doeth wherewith a man trespaseth agenst the Lorde so that the soule hath done amysse: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person shall be guilty; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong; |
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| Language | Numbers Chapter 5, Verse 6 |
| Bulgarian | Кажи на израилтяните: Когато мъж или жена, като човек, направи какъв да е грях, и стори престъпление против "оспода, и тоя човек стане виновен, |
| Cebuano | Isulti mo sa mga anak sa Israel: Sa diha nga ang lalake kun ang babaye makabuhat ug bisan unsa nga sala nga gibuhat sa mga tawo, aron sa paglapas batok kang Jehova, ug kana nga kalaga sad-an man; |
| Chinese | 曉 諭 以 色 列 人 說 、 無 論 " 女 、 若 犯 了 人 所 常 犯 的 罪 、 以 至 干 犯 耶 ' 華 、 那 人 就 有 了 罪 。 |
| Croatian | "Kaži Izraelcima: Kad koji èovjek ili žena poèini bilo kakav grijeh na štetu èovjeka ogriješivši se protiv Jahve, i osjeti se krivim, |
| Danish | Sig til Israeliterne: Når en Mand eller Kvinde begår nogen af alle de Synder, som Mennesker begår, således at han gør sig skyldig i Svig mod HERREN, og det Menneske derved pådrager sig Skyld, |
| Dutch | Spreek tot de kinderen Israels: Wanneer een man of een vrouw iets van enige menselijke zonden gedaan zullen hebben, overtreden hebbende door overtreding tegen den HEERE, zo is diezelve ziel schuldig. |
| Finnish | "Puhu israelilaisille: Jos mies tai nainen tekee rikkomuksen minkä tahansa, jonka ihminen tekee menettelemällä uskottomasti Herraa kohtaan, ja niin joutuu vikapääksi, |
| French | Parle aux enfants d`Israël: Lorsqu`un homme ou une femme péchera contre son prochain en commettant une infidélité l`égard de l`Éternel, et qu`il se rendra ainsi coupable, |
| German | Sage den Kindern Israel und sprich zu ihnen: Wenn ein Mann oder Weib irgend eine Sünde wider einen Menschen tut und sich an dem HERRN damit versündigt, so hat die Seele eine Schuld auf sich; |
| Haitian Creole | -Pale ak moun pèp Izrayèl yo. Lè yon gason osinon yon fanm pa kenbe pawòl l' ak Seyè a, l' al fè yon bagay mal kont yon moun, l' antò. |
| Hungarian | Szólj Izráel fiainak: Ha akár férfi, akár asszony, akármi emberi bûnt követ el, a mely által hûtelenné válik az Úrhoz; az a lélek vétkessé lesz. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | peraturan-peraturan ini untuk orang Israel: Apabila seseorang tidak setia kepada TUHAN dengan berbuat salah terhadap orang lain, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Katakanlah olehmu kepada bani Israel: Jikalau seorang laki-laki atau perempuan telah berbuat barang suatu dosa manusia dengan mendurhaka kepada Tuhan dan dirasai orang itu akan dirinya bersalah, |
| Italian | «Ordina agli Israeliti: Quando un uomo o una donna avr fatto un torto a qualcuno, peccando contro il Signore, questa persona si sar resa colpevole. |
| Korean | 이 스 라 엘 자 손 에 게 이 르 라 남 자 나 여 자 나 사 람 " 이 " 하 " 죄 를 " 하 여 여 호 와 께 패 역 하 여 그 몸 에 죄 를 얻 거 " |
| Maori | Mea atu ki nga tama a Iharaira, Ki te mahia e te tangata, e te wahine ranei, tetahi mea e hara ai te tangata, hei mahi i te kino ki a Ihowa, a ka he taua wairua; |
| Modern Greek | Ειπε προς τους υιους Ισραηλ, Οταν ανηρ η γυνη καμη τι εκ των αμαρτηματων των ανθρωπινων, πραττων παραβασιν εις τον Κυριον, και αμαρτηση η ψυχη εκεινη, |
| Norwegian | Si til Israels barn: Når en mann eller kvinne gjør nogen av de synder som mennesker gjør, og bærer sig troløst at mot Herren, så de fører skyld over sig, |
| Rumanian | ,,Spune copiilor lui Israel: Cknd un bqrbat sau o femeie va pqcqtui kmpotriva aproapelui squ, fqcknd o cqlcare de lege fayq de Domnul, wi se va face astfel vinovat, |
| Russian | УЛБЦЙ УЩОБН йЪТБЙМЕЧЩН: ЕУМЙ НХЦЮЙОБ ЙМЙ ЦЕОЭЙОБ У"ЕМБЕФ ЛБЛПК-МЙ'П ЗТЕИ ТПФЙЧ ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ, Й ЮТЕЪ ЬФП У"ЕМБЕФ ТЕУФХ МЕОЙЕ ТПФЙЧ зПУ П"Б, Й ЧЙОПЧОБ 'Х"ЕФ "ХЫБ ФБ, |
| Spanish | "Di a los hijos de Israel que cuando un hombre o una mujer cometa cualquiera de los pecados con que los hombres ofenden a Jehovah, esa persona será culpable. |
| Swedish | Tala till Israels barn: Om någon, vare sig man eller kvinna, begår någon synd -- vad det nu må vara, vari en människa kan försynda sig -- i det han gör sig skyldig till en orättrådighet mot HERREN, och denna person alltså ådrager sig skuld, |
| Thai | "จงกล่าวแก่คนอิสราเอลว่า ผู้ชายก็"ีหรือผู้หญิงก็"ีกระทำบาปอย่างที่มนุษย์กระทำ คือประพฤติการละเมิ"ต่อพระเยโฮวาห์ และผู้นั้นมีความผิ"แล้ว |
| Ukrainian | Промовляй до Ізраїлевих синів: Чоловік або жінка, коли зробить який людський гріх, чинячи тим спроневірення проти "оспода, і завинить душа та, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "negligence": negligences. (additional references) | |
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"Negligence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: necligence, Negigence, negilgence, neglagence, neglegence, neglience, negligance, negligenc, negligences, negligenter, negligience. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "negligence" (pronounced ne"glujuns) |
| 6 | -l u j u n s | diligence, intelligence. |
| 5 | -u j u n s | intransigence. |
| 4 | -j u n s | allegiance, convergence, counterintelligence, divergence, emergence, indulgence, reemergence, resurgence, submergence, vengeance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, interdependence, interference, intolerance, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-g-g-i-l-n-n" | |
-2 letters: lenience, negligee. | |
-3 letters: neglige. | |
-4 letters: engine, geeing, leggin, niggle. | |
-5 letters: cline, cling, gelee, genic, genie, ingle, liege, linen, niece. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-g-g-i-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: negligences. | |
+5 letters: gluconeogenesis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 67 6C 69 67 65 6E 63 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . --. .-.. .. --. . -. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100111 01101100 01101001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e g l i g e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0067 006C 0069 0067 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48717378757371806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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