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Webster 1913 Edition


Advertent

Ad-vert′ent

,
Adj.
[L.
advertens
,
-entis
, p. pr. of
advertere
. See
Advert
.]
Attentive; heedful; regardful.
Sir M. Hale.
Ad-vert′ent-ly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Advertent

ADVERT'ENT

,
Adj.
Attentive; heedful.

Definition 2024


advertent

advertent

English

Adjective

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' [....]

Usage notes

  • This term is much rarer than its opposite inadvertent.

Antonyms


Latin

Verb

advertent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of advertō