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/dɪlˌɪbərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Deliberation n.

The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. "Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation."

Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council.

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Etymology of 'Deliberation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deliberation" Quotes from Famous Books

... this point in his address, the orator seems to have spoken with great deliberation and self-restraint. St. George Tucker, who was present, and who has left a written statement of his recollections both of the speech and ...

— Patrick Henry • Moses Coit Tyler

... and away from him. But he was between her and the exit from the dell; he crouched with the impressive deliberation of a villain in a melodrama for another spring, ...

— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

... but endeavor to resist Nature's being Nature, that fire burn, water wet, that man eat, drink or sleep?" And in his sermon on married life he says: "As little as it is in my power that I be not a man, just so little is it in your power to be without a man. For it is not a matter of free will or deliberation, but a necessary, natural matter that all that is male must have a wife, and what is female must have a husband." Luther did not speak in this energetic manner in behalf of married life and the ...

— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... to hear; and what one could hear was—pitiful. He was there some time, for your hedgehog rarely hurries; and when he came out again, his little pig's eyes gleaming red under their spined cowl, it was with the same snuffling, softly grunting deliberation with which he had gone in; but the pale moon, that showed the gleam in his eyes, showed also blood on his snout, and on the bristles of ...

— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars

... the Works, as much as I can show you. Hardly any of the public are let through now. It will interest you, sir, to see what the Penny iron trade has become. I can take you down this afternoon. Harriet will find us some lunch." The latter moved in a sensuous deliberation, followed by a thin, acidulous trail of smoke, into inner rooms. "When do you have to go ...

— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

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