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Definition of Deliberate
Deliberate

Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.

Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result.

Not hasty or sudden; slow.

To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.

To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.

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Deliberate Quotations

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, continued, and dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln

Deliberate Translations

deliberate in Italian is riflettere, voluto
deliberate in Latin is delibero
deliberate in Norwegian is overlagt
deliberate in Spanish is razonar, adrede, reflexionar, deliberado


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