Bible Dictionaries
Argumentation

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Debate; discussion.

(2):

(n.) The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Argumentation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/argumentation.html. 1828.