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Internal attention is application or advertence of the mind.

From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.

To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Most theologians since the Council of Trent maintain that the inordinate movements of passion which precede the advertence of reason, such as lust, envy, sloth, etc., are not sins.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

What attracts the sensitive appetite, commonly allures also the affective will, though on advertence the elective will may reject it.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

Intention and Attention.—Attention is the voluntary application of the mind to that which is done, or the consideration or advertence of the mind given to an act.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome