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Treatment   /trˈitmənt/   Listen
Treatment

noun
1.
Care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury).  Synonym: intervention.
2.
The management of someone or something.  Synonym: handling.  "The treatment of water sewage" , "The right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
3.
A manner of dealing with something artistically.
4.
An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic.  Synonyms: discourse, discussion.  "His treatment of the race question is badly biased"



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"Treatment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Irish paupers back into poverty and ignorance, we ought to send in the same ship, some resolutions condemning England for her treatment of Ireland." ...
— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
... The treatment of the British officers helped also to unite the colonists. They made sport of the awkward provincial soldiers. The best American officers were often thrust aside to make place for young British subalterns. But, in spite of sneers, ...
— A Brief History of the United States • Barnes & Co.
... was settled, and the family party went on to Paris. The great physician made a careful examination of Mrs. Patterson. He, too, was unwilling to express an opinion about her condition. He would prefer, he said, to have madame under treatment awhile at his private hospital, a quiet ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... indictment. The picture I have given is indeed monstrously over-simplified and rude. But like all abstractions, it will prove to have its use. If philosophers can treat the life of the universe abstractly, they must not complain of an abstract treatment of the life of philosophy itself. In point of fact the picture I have given is, however coarse and sketchy, literally true. Temperaments with their cravings and refusals do determine men in their philosophies, ...
— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James
... another manner. Away with you, whither you are so solicitous of going down: there will be no returning for you, when you are once sent out. "Wretch that I am, what have I done? What did I want?"—you will say: when any one gives you ill treatment, and you know that you will be squeezed into small compass, as soon as the eager reader is satiated. But, if the augur be not prejudiced by resentment of your error, you shall be caressed at Rome [only] till your youth be passed. When, thumbed by the hands of the vulgar, you begin to grow dirty; ...
— The Works of Horace • Horace


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