Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Assembled or organized for deliberation or debate: a deliberative legislature.
- adj. Characterized by or for use in deliberation or debate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to deliberation or meditation; consisting of or used in discussion; argumentative; reasoning: as, a deliberative judgment or opinion; territorial delegates have a deliberative voice in Congress (that is, a right to engage in debate, though not to vote).
- Characterized by deliberation; proceeding from or acting by deliberation, especially by formal discussion: as, deliberative thought; the legislature is a deliberative body.
- n. A discourse in which a question is discussed or weighed and examined.
- n. In rhetoric, the art of proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it; the art of persuasion.
Wiktionary
- adj. That deliberates.
- n. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
- n. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating.
- n. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
- n. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination
Examples
“The boards are not going to be advisory, they're going to be what I call deliberative," said McNiff in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News last week, before he presented the plan to pastors and parochial school parents in the Bronx.”
“From the start of the session, Buckley has insisted on sticking to what she calls a deliberative process for rescuing state services from Gibbons 'budget knife.”
“One other thing, aside from long and disjointed terms, that definitely makes the Senate so deliberative is its relatively small size.”
“Note 48: Another of the progymnasmata exercises, the encomium offered "basic training" for epideictic rhetoric, although it was also useful in deliberative and forensic oratory.”
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“Whosoever denies the beverage which predates even bread as a staple of humankind through some dark, grotesque, and terrifying manner of thinking is clearly incapable of a degree of cognition sufficient to even pour pee out of a boot with instructions written under the heel, let alone engage in deliberative self-government.”
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“This is crystallized in the fact that social democrats do not represent a policy but rather they come up with something they call deliberative politics which has parallels in postmodernist relativism.”
“Rather, quality refers to a deliberative process: defining the problem; measuring costs, benefits and risks; weighing alternatives, making trade-offs, avoiding duplication; and giving the public opportunity to comment.”
“Terrorist acts such as suicide bombings are not typically carried out in an emotional frenzy; they are the consequences of deeply held belief systems and long-term deliberative planning.”
“So we commissioned PoliticsHome to use its new technique: so-called deliberative polling.”
“These, then, are our conclusions respecting the deliberative, that is, the supreme element in states.”
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