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Debate

noun
1.
A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.  Synonyms: argument, argumentation.
2.
The formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote).  Synonyms: disputation, public debate.
verb
(past & past part. debated; pres. part. debating)
1.
Argue with one another.  "John debated Mary"
2.
Think about carefully; weigh.  Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over.  "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
3.
Discuss the pros and cons of an issue.  Synonym: deliberate.
4.
Have an argument about something.  Synonyms: argue, contend, fence.



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"Debate" Quotes from Famous Books



... physical science. The sensation arises when the nervous process is transmitted through the nerves to the conscious centre, often spoken of as the sensorium, the exact seat of which is still a matter of some debate. ...
— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully
... has entered upon politics with uncommon—perhaps with an excessive—ardor. I think he is likely to make an eminent figure in Parliament; for he is a man of very clear head, very patient, of business-like habits, ready in debate, and, moreover, has at once an impressive and engaging delivery as a public speaker. He is generous and charitable as his admirable mother, and careless, even to a fault, of his pecuniary interests. He is a man ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... fair blooms in a full and dazzling cluster. Flowers (said a certain divine) are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. The nature-mystic thankfully acknowledges the sweetness, but he questions the absence of the soul! The degree of individuality is matter for grave debate; but to assume its absence is to place oneself out of focus for gaining true and living insight into nature's being. How much more deep-founded is Wordsworth's faith "that every flower ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
... receive the desires above-mentioned: And how beneficial it would be for the more firme settlement of the said union, that a Covenant should be entred into by both Nations: And this forme thereof being by all the foresaid persons taken into most serious debate and consideration, and agreed unto: It was thereupon resolved by them, that it should be presented to the General Assembly, to the Convention of Estates of Scotland, and to the two Houses of the Parliament of England, by their respective Committees and Commissioners, that it might ...
— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland
... A recent debate in the House of Congress at Washington developed a unanimous sentiment, that a good cook is more cultured than a pianist, and that girls should not be allowed piano lessons until they learn how to cook good biscuits. We have read of girls "whose heads were stuffed with useless knowledge, but ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger


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