Trump respects that Clinton 'is a fighter'
PBS NewsHour
trait
mid 16th century: from French, from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draft’ (see tract1). An early sense was ‘stroke of the pen or pencil in a picture’, giving rise to the sense ‘a particular feature of mind or character’ (mid 18th century).
late Middle English (in the sense ‘duration or course of time’): from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draft’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’.