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deliberative
[ dih-lib-er-uh-tiv, -uh-rey-tiv ]
adjective
- having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly:
a deliberative body.
- having to do with policy; dealing with the wisdom and expediency of a proposal:
a deliberative speech.
deliberative
/ dɪˈlɪbərətɪv /
adjective
- involved in, organized for, or having the function of deliberating
a deliberative assembly
- characterized by or resulting from deliberation
a deliberative conclusion
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Derived Forms
- deˈliberativeness, noun
- deˈliberatively, adverb
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Other Words From
- de·liber·a·tive·ly adverb
- de·liber·a·tive·ness noun
- unde·liber·a·tive adjective
- unde·liber·a·tive·ly adverb
- unde·liber·a·tive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of deliberative1
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Example Sentences
And, second, we already use sortition to select an important deliberative body, the trial jury.
This is a deliberative conversation, and he tries to get as much meaning into as few words as possible.
“Deliberative process” probably means, in this case, killing the legislation.
Ninety-four years of reasonably deliberative history was thus replicated in three fortnights of panic inside the Eccles Building.
Designed as the deliberative power, the Senate had become instead the negative power, the selfish power.
Reason and common sense demand that a great Church should have some sort of deliberative assembly.
In other respects the functions of the council seem to have been of a deliberative character.
His ancestral sceptre in his hand, he is going to hold a deliberative assembly of the unarmed host.
I have slight respect or esteem for deliberative assemblies split up into factions and parties.
It is due to truth to say that the Convention did not possess all the desirable characteristics of a deliberative assembly.
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