debating

== English == === Verb === debating present participle and gerund of debate === Noun === debating (countable and uncountable, plural debatings) The act of taking part in a debate. 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation If the war-minister, or all the ministers together, had had no debatings and dividings to look to; if they had had nobody but their master to obey; no families or particular individuals to conciliate or gratify; they would have acted upon the evidence