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Definition of Debates

1. debate [v] - See also: debate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Debates

Literary usage of Debates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"debates in both Holmes count of all the most remarkable Trans- of Parliament from ... Times to 1660, being the Restoration of ; debates in both Houses of ..."

2. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"debates IN CONGRESS : Embracing the speeches made in the two Houses of Congress, from March 4, 1789, to March 3,1851. When it is desired to find the ..."

3. Historical and Legal Examination of that Part of the Decision of the Supreme by Thomas Hart Benton (1857)
"These debates will contain the wisdom of Congress for seventy years, ... Mr. Benton gives the spirit of these debates, and the material seems well digested, ..."

4. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1876)
"... necessary to review the position which the press occupied Publication at this time, in its relation to the debates of Parlia- of debates. ment rjv^ ..."

5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"debates and Parliamentary Register, or History, Proceeding» of the Houses o/ Lords ... Proceedings and debates of the House , of Commons, in 1620 and 1621, ..."

6. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"debates were also frequently published anonymously in news-letters and pamphlets. After the Revolution frequent Resolutions were passed by both debates ..."

7. The English Historical Review by JSTOR (Organization), Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press), Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1909)
"The debates in the Irish House of Commons, 1776-1789. IN the second report ' of the Historical Manuscripts Commission Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice (now Lord ..."

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