Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-LIB'ER-A-TIVE
DE-LIB'ER-A-TIVEDE-LIB'ER-A-TIVE-LY
DE-LIB'ER-A-TIVE, n.
A discourse in which a question is discussed or weighed and examined. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it. – Encyc.
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