advertence

Example Sentences

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Is such internal attention, such deliberate application or mental advertence necessary for the valid recitation of the office?

From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.

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 Callan, Charles Jerome

Should all advertence and deliberation be taken away, a rare occurrence, it diminishes the liberty of the act and consequently its morality as good or bad.

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Next, from what has been said it is plain, that such a process of reasoning is more or less implicit, and without the direct and full advertence of the mind exercising it.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry