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UK
/dɪlˈɪbəɹətˌɪv/
]
[ US /dɪˈɫɪbɝˌeɪtɪv, dɪˈɫɪbɹətɪv/ ]
[ US /dɪˈɫɪbɝˌeɪtɪv, dɪˈɫɪbɹətɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination
a deliberative body
How To Use deliberative In A Sentence
- Fortunately, we drew a rational, deliberative judge, unswayed by the case's racially charged nature: a poor black kid against a rich white Ivy Leaguer.
- There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control.
- There's a deliberative process and that decision will be made.
- Desires are resilient, in this sense, when they are unresponsive to the agent's own deliberative reflection.
- The fact that Antin creates a talk-poetry which is argumentative and deliberative, and rests on thematics that broadly have to do with social and cultural placing, connects up with this.
- In other words, the usual epideictic speech inculcates values, while these political songs employed values as topoi for a purpose more typical of deliberative speech.
- This could suggest that our manipulation was not successful in inducing a deliberative mindset.
- Deliberative commensurability is not necessary for proceeding rationally if conflicting considerations can be rationally dealt with in a holistic way that does not involve the appeal to a principle of Moral Reasoning
- By that, he included the power to take part in the assembly, the deliberative gathering of all citizens who then voted on proposals in war, peace, and anything else.
- There's something wistfully pinheaded about deliberative democracy - it sounds a lot like law school.