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thesis

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9
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8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈθiːsɪs/
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/ˈθiːsɪs/ · /ˈθɛsɪs/ · /ˈθisɪs/ · /ˈθiːsiːz/ · /ˈθisiz/

Definition of thesis

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (rhetoric)Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
    “I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.” […] I am confident that every thesis stands on solid ground.”
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noun

  1. (rhetoric)Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
    “I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.” […] I am confident that every thesis stands on solid ground.”
  2. (broadly)Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
    “I told them of the grave, becoming, and ſublime deportment they ſhould aſſume upon this myſtical occaſion, and read them two homilies and a theſis of my own compoſing, in order to prepare them.”
  3. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
  4. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
  5. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
  6. Senses relating to music and prosody.
  7. Senses relating to music and prosody.

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Etymology

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésĭs, “arrangement,…

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From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésĭs, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed. Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thesēs, from Ancient Greek θέσεις (théseis).

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