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Yet to read his treatise is to feel not FOMO, but alienation.—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024 Taking a leaf from the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s famous treatise, the book makes the case for turning the UN into a sort of benign Leviathan.—Roland Rich, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023 Man and His Works A scientific, readable treatise on cultural anthropology, by a leading authority, professor at Northwestern.—Melville J. Herskovits, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024 To enforce his personal rule of law, James could censor speech, the press, legal treatises, and the theater.—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for treatise
Word History
Etymology
Middle English tretis, from Anglo-French tretiz, alteration of tretez, traitet, from Medieval Latin tractatus, from Latin tractare to treat, handle
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