advertencyn.
/ədˈvəːt(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ædˈvərtnsi/, /ədˈvərtnsi/ Now rare.
The quality or habit of being advertent or attentive; attentiveness, heedfulness. Cf. advertence n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [noun] > quality of
mindinessc1175
tentivenessa1382
mindfulness1530
attentiveness1549
heedfulness1561
regardfulness1571
heediness1596
respectiveness1598
studiousness1619
attendancya1626
advertency1644
1644 Devotions Helpe Christian People 7 I have been negligent in..doing my duties..without advertency in the execution of them.
1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 77 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I Through want of advertency he has been often guilty of that errour.
1725 J. Swift Let. 11 Sept. in Misc. (1745) X. xi. 88 Too much Advertency is not your Talent.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 7 No advertency is sufficient to guard against slips and contradictions.
1800 J. Stuart in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 569 An advertency to the former periods of history..ought to caution us to keep a watchful eye on this quarter.
1881 United Service Mag. Feb. 164 He loved to screw them [sc. his features] up, in order to convey to his fellow men the acuteness of the advertency he was able to bestow upon affairs.
1917 P. E. More Platonism v. 132 This advertency is that wherein I place the seat of free agency.
1993 Amer. Anthropologist 95 247/2 As groups learn to manipulate the politics of culture, questions of documentary control increasingly animate institutional advertency.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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