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disputation

noun
/dɪsˌpjuːˈteɪʃən/UK

Etymology

English dispute + -ation, from Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio.

  1. derived from disputo — “to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”
  2. derived from desputer
  3. inherited from disputen
  4. suffixed as disputation — “dispute + ation”

Definitions

  1. The act of disputing

    The act of disputing; a dispute or argument.

    • And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.

  2. A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief…

    A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.

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Derived

disputationism

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disputation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA