To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. advertens, -entis, p. pr. of advertere. See Advert. ] Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. --
n. One who animadverts; a censurer; also [ Obs. ], a chastiser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.
a. [ Cf. F. inadvertant. See 2d In-, and Advert. ] Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. [ 1913 Webster ]
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper.
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n. Inadvertence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. [ R. ] Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]