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Another word for tenor

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tenor

n.

One with a high masculine voice
vocalist, singer, lyric tenor, bel canto tenor, countertenor, crooner, adenoid tenor*, bathroom tenor*, gelatine tenor*, whiskey tenor*; see also musician.
Tendency
tone, course, trend, drift; see inclination 1. See syn. study at tendency.

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Another word for tenor

noun

The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse:
aim, burden², drift, intent, meaning, purport, substance, tendency, thrust. See meaning
The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement:
amount, burden², drift, import, purport, substance. Idioms: sum and substance, sum total. See meaning

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This, however, does not disturb the tenor of the following arguments.
To suppose Disraeli satisfied with the excuses made for his adoption of the "dishing" process is forbidden by the whole tenor of his teaching and conduct.
But having failed, he allowed the paper, and also a second by Chevenix of the same tenor in 1805, to be read without avowing that it was he himself who had originally detected the metal, although he had an excellent opportunity of stating the fact in 1804 when he discussed the substance in the paper which announced the discovery of rhodium.
But there is no mention of the Van den Endes in Spinoza's correspondence; and in the whole tenor of his life and character there is nothing on which to fasten the probability of a romantic attachment.
The treatise De divina praedestinatione, composed on this occasion, has been preserved, and from its general tenor one cannot be surprised that the author's orthodoxy was at once and vehemently suspected.

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