advisement
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English advisement, avisement, from Old French advisement, avisement, from adviser, aviser + -ment.
Noun edit
advisement (usually uncountable, plural advisements)
- (now US) Consideration or deliberation.
- He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.
- (archaic) Advice, counsel.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 141:
- Her wiſely comforted all, that ſhe might, / With goodly counſell and aduiſement right; […]
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Scots edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
advisement (plural advisements)
References edit
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.