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 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
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.
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 Charles Jerome Callan
