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tenor : 英英辞書
Ten"or
(), n.[L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See Tenable, and cf. Tenor a kind of voice.]
1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their away.
Gray.
2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men?
Spart.
3. Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.
Dryden.
4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. Bouvier.
5. [F. tnor, L. tenor, prop


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