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US
/dɪˈspjuˈteɪʃən/
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NOUN
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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
they were involved in a violent argument - the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)
How To Use disputation In A Sentence
- Tomus 2: Index disputationum; Maestlinus-Zyra, Opera anonyma Assorted Moments of Moral Ambiguity from the World of Gay Porn
- Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low.
- Nimia profecto almplicitate peccant qui scandalizantur quoties audiunt aliquid ex jam olim creditia et juxta breviarii prescriptum hodiedum recitandis, in disputationem adduci. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
- How to transfix and realize orient run-through on Three Gorges Reservoir sector, Yangtze has been being a focus and disputation problem of academic circle historically.
- Apollo, ut Horatiu {m} a garrulo, sed Bacchus a uesani hominis disputatione, qua {m} diutius longe duraturam ueheme {n} ter timeba {m}. Early English Meals and Manners
- Politics defines the world of means subordinate to ends, of instrumental complexes, of conflict, disputation and strife.
- Now those who have attained even a little expertise in disputation and argument could reply to that on my behalf.
- [15] 'Whose eidant plead yet made my thoughtis grein:' whose close disputation made my thoughts yearn. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
- The style of his discourse was adapted to cloisteral disputations, and overloaded with scholastic distinctions. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
- They were born to debate and disputation, abashed by no authority established over them, brash and as spirited as cats.
