? Obs. Also 5 avysnes, 6 avysenesse. [orig. f. avisè (see ADVISY) + -NESS. Etymologically avyseness and advisedness are two words; but historically advisedness came in as a ‘rectification’ of avyseness, when the Eng. ppl. adj. ADVISED took the place of avisè, avisy.] The quality of being advised; prudent consideration, caution, deliberation.
c. 1400. Tundale Vis., Purif. Marie, 132. Mary … gan merveyly with grete avysnes Of the wordis that he can expresse.
1509. Payne, of Evyll Maryage, 9. I was in purpoce … for to have wedded without avysenesse A fulle fayre mayde.
1633. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 349. Such a kind of cunctation, advisedness, and procrastination is allowable also in all councils of state.
1755. S. Walker, Serm., ix. His Recreations also, are with much Consultation and Advisedness.
1789. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., ix. § 10. Advisedness with respect to the circumstances … extends the intentionality from the act to the consequences.
