debatement

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UK/dɪˈbeɪtmənt/

noun

controversy, deliberation, or debate

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Meanings

noundebatement (countable and uncountable, plural debatements)

plural debatements

  1. countableuncountablecontroversy, deliberation, or debate

    EXPOSTULATIONS AND DEBATEMENTS WITH GOD

    1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC
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    Release my brother; and after much debatement, My sisterly remorse, confutes mine honour

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

    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

    a serious question and debatement with myself

    1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC

Origin

Compare Old French debatement (“a beating”).

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APA

debatement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debatement

MLA

“debatement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debatement. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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