What does "deliberative" mean?
Deliberative: A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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