advertence

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Noun

advertence (countable and uncountable, plural advertences)

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.

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