treatise
noun
trea·tise
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Whether a short checklist, visual principles, or lengthy treatise, most agree on core principles of privacy, safety and security, transparency, fairness, and autonomy. — Pamela Pavliscak, Quartz, "Forget AI ethics—treat technology like a new relationship instead," 2 Aug. 2019 To me, this book felt like a treatise on the power of words. — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, "Elizabeth Gilbert's 'City of Girls' Lives Up to the Hype," 1 Aug. 2019 Among them was Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics, $18.95), a Reagan-era pop-sci bestseller that reads like a lost Renaissance treatise. — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, "New Books," 22 July 2019 Like many monumental works of 15th-century printing, Pacioli’s treatise has survived in its original form. — The Economist, "A revolutionary treatise goes on the block," 6 June 2019 Émigré scholars and nativist autodidacts met secretly in rural museums and published samizdat treatises filled with runic letters and outlandish ethnological hypotheses. — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, "The Call of the Drums," 21 July 2019 Romney released lengthy treatises and delivered major addresses to think tanks. — Noah Bierman, latimes.com, "‘Great’ again: To win in 2020, Trump sticks with what worked," 12 July 2019 This astronomical treatise was then widely distributed, making visual access to the moon’s surface available to some for the first time in history. — Shannon Stirone, New York Times, "Imagining the Moon," 9 July 2019 In 1883, when the Kamasutra first made its appearance in English, European readers of Vatsyayana’s treatise hadn’t the faintest idea that its publisher—the wordily nomenclatured Hindoo Kama Shastra Society—was, in fact, an entirely nonexistent body. — Manu S Pillai, Quartz India, "When a British official dodged Victorian prudery to publish the Kamasutra in English," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'treatise.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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treatise
noun
English Language Learners Definition of treatise
: a book, article, etc., that discusses a subject carefully and thoroughly
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