Meanings
comparative more advertent · superlative most advertent
- Attentive.
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.
There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 4421 more example
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' [....]
1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283Synonyms: deliberate
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot inadvertent; intentional.
antonym(s) of “intentional”
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinadvertent-
- Englishadvertent
Apparently a back-formation from inadvertent, or a learned borrowing from Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“to give or draw attention to”)
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