debating

English

Verb

debating

1. present participle and gerund of debate

Noun

debating (countable and uncountable, plural debatings)

1. The act of taking part in a debate.
   • 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation

     If the war-minister, or all the ministers together, had had no debatings and dividings to look to; if they had had nobody but their master to obey; no families or particular individuals to conciliate or gratify; they would have acted upon the evidence