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Apparently back-formation from inadvertent.

Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (I give or draw attention to)

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advertent (comparative more advertent, superlative most advertent)

  1. Attentive.
    • 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227:
      Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported
  2. Not inadvertent; intentional.
    • 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442:
      There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
    • 1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283:
      Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]

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advertent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of advertō