disputation
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Etymology
English dispute + -ation, from Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio.
Pronunciation
Noun
disputation (countable and uncountable, plural disputations)
- The act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13:
- And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.
- A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dispute
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