Definitions for tenour
tenour

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1. Tenournoun

   Etymology: tenor, Lat. tenour, Fr.

   1. Continuity of state; constant mode; manner of continuity; general currency.

   We might perceive his words interrupted continually with sighs, and the tenor of his speech not knit together to one constant end, but dissolved in itself, as the vehemency of the inward passion prevailed. Philip Sidney.

   When the world first out of chaos sprang,
   So smil’d the days, and so the tenor ran
   Of their felicity: a spring was there,
   An everlasting spring, the jolly year
   Led round in his great circle, no winds breath
   As now did smell of Winter or of death. Richard Crashaw.

   Still I see the tenor of man’s woe
   Hold on the same, from woman to begin. John Milton.

   Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men. Thomas Sprat.

   Inspire my numbers,
   Till I my long laborious work complete,
   And add perpetual tenor to my rhimes,
   Deduc’d from nature’s birth to Cæsar’s times. Dryden.

   This success would look like chance if it were not perpetual, and always of the same tenor. Dryden.

   Can it be poison! poison’s of one tenor,
   Or hot, or cold. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

   There is so great an uniformity amongst them, that the whole tenor of those bodies thus preserved clearly points forth the month of May. John Woodward, Nat. Hist.

   In such lays as neither ebb nor flow,
   Correctly cold, and regularly low,
   That shunning faults, one quiet tenor keep,
   We cannot blame indeed —— but we may sleep. Alexander Pope.

   2. Sense contained; general course or drift.

   Has not the divine Apollo said,
   Is’t not the tenor of his oracle,
   That king Leontes shall not have an heir,
   Till his lost child be found? William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   By the stern brow and waspish action,
   Which she did use as she was writing of it,
   It bears an angry tenor. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   Bid me tear the bond.
   —— When it is paid according to the tenor. William Shakespeare.

   Reading it must be repeated again and again with a close attention to the tenor of the discourse, and a perfect neglect of the divisions into chapters and verses. John Locke.

   3. A sound in musick.

   The treble cutteth the air too sharp to make the sound equal; and therefore a mean or tenor is the sweetest part. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 173.

How to pronounce tenour?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tenour in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tenour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

References

1. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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