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Debating society

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a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

See also: Debating



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I established a small reading-room and a debating society.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
I do not conceive that they could support a debating society for a single night: there would be nothing to dispute about; and were they to call a convention to take into consideration the state of the tribe, its session would be a remarkably short one.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
They were narrow and intemperate and perverse as any I had heard him advocate as the firebrand of the Debating Society in my first term.
A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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