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      reason
      noun
      (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
      A motive for an action or a determination.
      An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
      A cause:
      That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
      A wall plate.
      (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
      A surname.
      (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
      (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
      verb
      (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
      (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
      (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
      (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
      (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
      (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
      (intransitive, obsolete) To converse; to compare opinions.
      (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
      Roots
      ratioreason- · Latin · reason, reckoning
      Synonyms for reason
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      Words related to reason
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