Deliberative Definition

dĭ-lĭbə-rātĭv, -ər-ə-tĭv
adjective
Assembled or organized for deliberation or debate.
A deliberative legislature.
American Heritage
Of or for deliberating.
A deliberative assembly.
Webster's New World
Characterized by or resulting from deliberation.
Webster's New World
Wiktionary
noun

A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.

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A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.

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Other Word Forms of Deliberative

Noun

Singular:
deliberative
Plural:
deliberatives

Origin of Deliberative

  • From Middle French délibératif, from Latin deliberativus

    From Wiktionary

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