advertent

Apparently a back-formation from inadvertent, or a learned borrowing from Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“I give or draw attention to”)

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advertent (comparative more advertent, superlative most advertent)

Attentive.
- 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227:
  Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported
Not inadvertent; intentional.
- 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442:
  There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
- 1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283:
  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' [....]

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