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Definition of Deliberative
1. Adjective. Involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination. "A deliberative body"
Definition of Deliberative
1. a. Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
2. n. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
Definition of Deliberative
1. Adjective. That deliberates. ¹
2. Noun. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. ¹
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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deliberative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliberative
Literary usage of Deliberative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"When, with Demosthenes and his contemporaries, deliberative oratory first comes
clearly into view, its masters are found to owe their several excellences as ..."
2. Dynamic Sociology, Or Applied Social Science, as Based Upon Statical by Lester Frank Ward (1883)
"... deliberative actions—deliberative actions possessing moral quality—Nature of
the conscience—Virtue and vice—Responsibility—Crime—Normal deliberative ..."
3. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator by Quintilian (1892)
"deliberative oratory not confined to questions of utility, § 1. ... deliberative
oratory not concerned wholly with the state of quality, 4, 5. ..."
4. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"deliberative Subjunctive 443. The Subjunctive was used in sentences of ...
In these uses the subjunctive is often called deliberative or Dubitative. 444. ..."
5. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1896)
"ON THE EXTENT OF THE deliberative CONSTRUCTION IN RELATIVE CLAUSES IN GREEK. ...
Nearly all are agreed that o TI 8<o is an indirect deliberative question. ..."
6. Modern American Oratory: Seven Representative Orations by Ralph Curtis Ringwalt (1898)
"The real beginning of deliberative oratory had better be placed somewhere in the
first years of the fifth century before Christ; the date of Antiphon, ..."
7. Dynamic Sociology by Lester Frank Ward (1897)
"... deliberative actions—deliberative actions possessing moral quality—Nature of
the conscience—Virtue and vice—Responsibility—Crime—Normal deliberative ..."
8. Modern American Oratory: Seven Representative Orations by Ralph Curtis Ringwalt (1898)
"deliberative ORATORY. Although deliberative oratory has been denned as the oratory
of the assembly, the inference must not be drawn that it is restricted in ..."
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