advisement
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English advisement, avisement, from Old French advisement, avisement, from adviser, aviser + -ment.
Noun
[edit]advisement (usually uncountable, plural advisements)
- (now US) Consideration or deliberation.
- He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.
- (archaic) Advice, counsel.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 141:
- Her wiſely comforted all, that ſhe might, / With goodly counſell and aduiſement right; […]
Derived terms
[edit]Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]advisement (plural advisements)
References
[edit]- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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