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Ross’ film, like Whitehead’s novel, refuses to serve as a one-note cinematic treatise on Black trauma.—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024 Judging from contemporary catalogs and advertisements, booksellers saw the text not as a mathematical treatise or schoolbook, but rather a piece of popular literature worthy of mass attention.—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024 Love Streams was possibly Cassavetes’s greatest treatise on his philosophy of love and altogether one of Rowlands’s most complex performances.—Emma Madden, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024 Such is the world in which Amy Berryman’s intelligent and compassionate climate-disaster drama — named for Thoreau’s treatise (though not, as the title might suggest, an adaptation of it) and now receiving its New York premiere under Whitney White’s graceful direction at Second Stage — takes place.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024 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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