Deliberate vs Advertent - What's the difference?
deliberate | advertent |
Done on purpose; intentional.
Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining.
Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
* Shakespeare
Not hasty or sudden; slow.
* W. Wirt
To consider carefully.
Attentive.
* 1828 , Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations , page 227
Not inadvertent; intentional.
* 1963 , Philippine Law Journal , page 442
* 1998 , Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law , page 283
As adjectives the difference between deliberate and advertent
is that deliberate is done on purpose; intentional while advertent is attentive.As a verb deliberate
is to consider carefully.deliberate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Tripping me was deliberate action.
- The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
- a deliberate''' opinion; a '''deliberate measure or result
- settled visage and deliberate word
- His enunciation was so deliberate .
Antonyms
* (intentional) unwittingVerb
(deliberat)- It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.
External links
* * * English heteronyms ----advertent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent , lest he should be deceived and transported
- There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
- 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' [....]