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disquisition
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synonyms: treatise, dissertation, ~monograph ???
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Definition:a long discussion on a subject
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"Christ before Pilate. Christ is represented as a Jew with all the realism of the new school."
And the question of the subject of the picture having brought him to one of his favorite theories, Golenishtchev launched forth into a disquisition on it.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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