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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
- Even the content of this table talk is shared with the scholars' disputation.
- He was known to be a terror for demolishing opponents in public disputations.
- Rather than avoid them, a responsible handbook should engage its readership in the scholarly disputations that pertain to the foundations of the area or field.
- Justificare significat Apostolo in disputatione de justificatione, peccata remittere, a culpa et poena absolvere, in gratiam recipere, et justum pronunciare. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
- Have they not, as Paul says, become vain in their disputations, always trifling about universals, formalities, connotations, and various other foolish words?
- In the 12th century, writers such as Abelard and Alan of Lille composed dialogues, allegories, axiomatic works, disputations, and summae, but the next two centuries were dominated by the forms of commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, various forms of the disputed question, and the summa. Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
- What we keep saying is our guarantee is our record - 1.6 million extra jobs, 14 per cent increase in real wages, lowest levels of industrial disputation.
- These results are not surprising given the low level of industrial disputation, and other survey evidence which suggests many employees are worried about their level of security at work.
- After much legal disputation our right to resign was established.
- The determination itself was a public disputation, after which the determiner might wear the bachelor's "cappa" and lecture on the Organon. Life in the Medieval University
