debating

Noun

 * 1) The act of taking part in a debate.
 * 2) * 1824-1826,, 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