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  • noun obsolete Plural form of advice.

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Examples

  • The general tenor of the advices is again favourable to the Federals.

    Foreign and Colonial News 1862

  • I really prefer advices from a blogger than a so-called “professional” …

    Anthony Dias Blue, bloggers, and the exposure package | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Just started fishing and this advices is priceless!

    How I Fish: Doug Hannon 2009

  • Just started fishing and this advices is priceless!

    How I Fish: Doug Hannon 2009

  • Yeah, getting advices from a half-nude sword-wielding muscle man was always great.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - He-man sexual harrasment PSA 2007

  • And all the late advices from the French West Indies are, that they have now in their ports always three times as many vessels as there ever were before, and that the increase is principally from our States.

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • My favourite bit of writing advices is something I read in Murakami's biog, "What I Think About When I Think About Running".

    How to Have Awesome Writing 2010

  • The arrival of Athol from Scotland with advices from the countess of Strathearn, that Lady Helen Mar had fled southward to raise an insurrection in favor of Wallace, and that Lord Bothwell had gone to France to move Philip to embrace the same cause, gave Edward so apt an excuse for giving full way to his hatred against the Scottish chief, that he pronounced an order for the immediate and unrestricted execution of his sentence.

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • Full reports submitted to Congress by Pickering and McHenry, based on correspondence with the British and Spanish ministers and latest advices from the southern border, sustained the accusations against the Senator.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Full reports submitted to Congress by Pickering and McHenry, based on correspondence with the British and Spanish ministers and latest advices from the southern border, sustained the accusations against the Senator.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

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  • See the synonyms under news.

    April 18, 2012