advertence
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Superficial attention is that advertence of soul which applies itself to the correct recitation of the words, avoiding errors of pronunciation, mutilation, transposition, etc., etc.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
If the actual advertence to the act is imperfect, the voluntariety is diminished; if advertence is totally absent, all voluntariety is taken away.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
Internal attention is application or advertence of the mind.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
Here as in all exercise, companionship which removes conscious attention from advertence to the will greatly aids.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
What attracts the sensitive appetite, commonly allures also the affective will, though on advertence the elective will may reject it.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
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