advertence

English

Noun

advertence (countable and uncountable, plural advertences)

1. The quality of being advertent

   Synonyms: heedfulness, regard, consideration, advertency; see also Thesaurus:attention

   • 1871, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (vol. 2), Book V, Chapter VII, p. 482:

     Those who are born to the ownership of property have, in addition to these common benefits, a separate inheritance, and to this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation.

   • 2020, Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson writing for the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Aquinnah/Gay Head Cmty. Ass'n v. Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head:

     Early in this case, the Tribe pressed a different sovereign immunity argument before the district court, which the district rejected by advertence to a decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Derived terms

• misadvertence
• nonadvertence