deliberative

deliberative is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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