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What does disputation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
  2. A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
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They were born to debate and disputation, abashed by no authority established over them, brash and as spirited as cats.
In the absence of a company policy on this issue, a theft-of-employee-property policy should be developed to avoid possible future disputation with affected employees.
Those of you who might naively imagine that vitriolic historical disputation is a transient phenomenon of Australian academe should think again.
Amid all this terminological disputation, it is important, though not always easy, to keep in mind the real-world consequences of these ideas.
The dominant activity is free-wheeling, disrespectful, antiauthority disputation.
We see the Family Relationship Centres as being the initial shock absorber, if I can put it that way, of the disputation and the disagreement following a separation.

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