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deliberative

The English word “deliberative” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. That deliberates, considers carefully.

noun

  1. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
  2. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.

Etymology

From Middle French délibératif, from Latin deliberativus.

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