Definition of Deliberate

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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

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

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

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

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

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul II

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers

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

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

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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