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the act of making definite or clear; the formal statement of the meaning of a word, phrase, etc.; the condition of being definite

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Usage examples (36)
  • A Federal Judge told the city that they cannot have a "definitional" ban.
  • Doesn't it sometimes seem as if there's only one kind of definitional argument, and we keep having it again and again?
  • Nerd trolls. what Zizek said (youtube) about that kind of definitional debate:
  • The problem was "definitional," he continued, and honed on the meaning of the word
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