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Involving careful consideration
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deliberative
Word definitions for deliberative in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Middle French délibératif or directly from Latin deliberativus "pertaining to deliberation," from past participle stem of deliberare (see deliberation ). Related: Deliberatively ; deliberativeness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deliberative \De*lib"er*a*tive\, n. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. --Bacon. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. That deliberates, considers carefully. n. 1 A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. 2 A kind of rhetoric employed in prove a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An informed public would prefer prudent, deliberative management. ▪ But this, being a deliberative move to impart false information, would be a reversion to the linguistic. ▪ Consciousness, we may argue, comes into being ...
Usage examples of deliberative.
Lindsey, relying on the attorney-client, presidential communication, deliberative process, and work-product privileges, declined to say what specifically was discussed at this meeting.
Lindsey refused to reveal the content of these conversations with the President, citing the presidential communication, deliberative process, and attorney-client privileges, both officially and privately, as well as the attorney work product doctrine.
Lindsey, on instructions from the President, see Lindsey 8/28/98 GJ at 23, has invoked the presidential communication privilege, the deliberative process privilege, the governmental attorney-client privilege, and President Clinton's personal attorney-client privilege with regard to conversations with the President and has thus refused to disclose what the President said to him on January 21.
And here is the reason: temper, to warrant its appearance, desires to be thought as deliberative as policy, and policy, the sooner to prove its shrewdness, is impatient for the quick blood of temper.
My remark seemed natural and harmless enough to him, I suppose, but I had been distinctly snubbed, and the Member of the Haouse thought I must defend myself, as is customary in the deliberative body to which he belongs, when one gentleman accuses another gentleman of mental weakness or obliquity.
If the money is to go in deliberative dinners, you may set me down for a committee man and honorary caterer.
Thanks to them, the (Jacobin) faction now has its deliberative assemblies, its executive powers, its central seat of government, its enlarged, tried, and ready army, and, forcibly or otherwise, its program will be carried out.
The rest, collected from amongst the mass of unknown demagogues, are six art-apprentices or bad painters, six business-agents or ex-lawyers, seven second or third-rate merchants, one teacher, one surgeon, one unfrocked married priest, all of whom, under the political direction of Mayor Fleuriot- Lescot and Payen, the national agent, bring to the general council no administrative ability, but the faculty for verbal argumentation, along with the requisite amount of talk and scribbling indispensable to a deliberative assembly.
The delay had already continued long beyond the usual deliberative pause that always preceded a conference.
A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it.