debating

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of debate

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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”