1. Adjective
Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
2. Noun
A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
3. Noun
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
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