argumentative
suomi-englanti sanakirjaargumentative englannista suomeksi
väittelynhaluinen, kiistanhaluinen
argumentative englanniksi
Of or relating to argumentation; specifically, presenting a logical argument or line of reasoning; argumentive, discursive.
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(quote-book); Edinburgh: Creech|William Creech|year=1783|volume=II|page=179|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822043028265&view=1up&seq=187|oclc=6660952|passage=I proceed next to treat of the argumentative or reaſoning Part of a Diſcourſe. In whatever place, or on whatever ſubject one ſpeaks, this beyond doubt is of the greateſt conſequence.
(quote-book); T. Cunningham|chapter=Demurrer|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6FBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP166|title=Bacon's Abridgement|A New Abridgment of the Law, (...) In Five Volumes.(nb...)|edition=6th|location=Dublin|publisher=Luke White|year=1793|volume=IV|oclc=1119594238|passage=There muſt be a Special Demurrer to a Negative Pregnant, that is, a Negative Plea, which doth alſo contain in it an Affirmative; and to an Argumentative Plea, that is a Plea which concludes nothing directly, but only by Way of Argument or Reaſoning, for the Court will intend every Plea to be good till the contrary doth appear.
(quote-journal) 8vo. pp. 441. Oxford; Cooke and Parker. review|editor=John Taylor Coleridge|magazine=Review|The Quarterly Review|location=London|publisher=(...) Murray (publisher)|John Murray,(nb...)|month=June|year=1812|volume=VII|issue=XIV|page=293|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=74hHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA293|oclc=1009026207|passage=Discourses to an academical audience ought undoubtedly to be of a more learned and recondite class than those which are addressed to ordinary congregations. They should be mostly of the argumentative cast; rather adapted to inform the understandings and exercise the reasoning faculties of the hearers, than to awaken the affections or work upon the passions.
(quote-book)|year=1911|page=129|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0YjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA129|oclc=1056595050|passage=Yet with all its straight-forwardness and argumentative rigor, its prime motive was the loving desire to bring back, if not absolute identity of thought and teaching, certainly an obedience to what is the essence of Christian life, brotherly love and the mutuality which requires freedom and toleration.
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(quote-book)|title=A Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal,(nb...) on the Proposed Rate of Currency, and Other Late Alterations, as They Affect, or are Intended to Affect, the Kingdom of Scotland|edition=2nd|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) (publishing house)|William Blackwood,(nb...); London: Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|year=1826|page=30|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AF0UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA30|oclc=80633430|passage=Your host was in his turn eloquent,—authoritative,—facetious,—argumentative,—precatory,—pathetic, above all, pertinacious.
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