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The thirty-page note is less a theological treatise than an ethical report.—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025 Trump’s friend Rudy Giuliani, after his successful leadership as mayor of New York during 9/11, wrote a compelling treatise on leadership and offered 14 principles for would-be leaders.—Michael Eric Siegel, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025 The Art of Dancing in Seventeenth-Century Spain, my translation of and commentary on Juan De Esquivel Navarro’s treatise, has a chapter on the science of the period.—Chava Pearl Lansky, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2025 Throughout that first treatise, Locke excoriated the divine right of kings.—Time, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for treatise
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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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