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   Oversight (?), n.
   
   1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
   
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   2. An overlooking; an omission; an error.  Hooker.
   
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   3. Escape from an overlooked peril. [R.] “His fool-happy oversight.”  Spenser.
   
   [1913 Webster] Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking; inadvertence; neglect; mistake; error; omission.
   
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