Adjective
advertent
- 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
- 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227
- 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' [....]
- 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442
- (intentional) inadvertent
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