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debatement

UK/dɪˈbeɪtmənt/

debatement noun: controversy, deliberation, or debate.

Noun

debatement (countable and uncountable, plural debatements)

  1. controversy, deliberation, or debate
    • Release my brother; and after much debatement,
      My sisterly remorse, confutes mine honourc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Well could he him remember, sith of late
      He with Pyrrhochles sharp debatement made;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of debatement

pluraldebatements

Origin of debatement

Compare Old French debatement (“a beating”).

Questions about debatement

What does debatement mean?
Debatement means controversy, deliberation, or debate.
What part of speech is debatement?
Debatement is a noun.
How do you pronounce debatement?
Debatement is pronounced /dɪˈbeɪtmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of debatement?
The plural of debatement is debatements.

Words near debatement in the dictionary

  1. debatedly
  2. debateful
  3. Debategate
  4. debatelord
  5. debatelords
  6. debatement
  7. debatements
  8. debater
  9. debaters
  10. debates
  11. debatest

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