advertence

plural advertences

1. countableuncountableThe quality of being advertent

   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.

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

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   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.

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

   Synonyms: heedfulness, regard, consideration, advertency, advertency, attention, consideration, heed