advertence
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- advertent adjective
- advertently adverb
- nonadvertence noun
Etymology
Origin of advertence
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; advert 1, -ence
Example Sentences
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To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation.
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Here as in all exercise, companionship which removes conscious attention from advertence to the will greatly aids.
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If the actual advertence to the act is imperfect, the voluntariety is diminished; if advertence is totally absent, all voluntariety is taken away.
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Next, from what has been said it is plain, that such a process of reasoning is more or less implicit, and without the direct and full advertence of the mind exercising it.
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What attracts the sensitive appetite, commonly allures also the affective will, though on advertence the elective will may reject it.
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