advertent

Adjective

advertent (comparative more advertent, superlative most advertent)

1. Attentive.
   • Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227
2. Not inadvertent; intentional.
   • There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442
   • 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' [....]1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283

   Synonyms:

   deliberate