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Tenor vs Tenour - What's the difference?

tenor | tenour |

As nouns the difference between tenor and tenour

is that tenor is tenor while tenour is .

tenor

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic, music) Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus'' and ''contratenor altus , who perform countermelodies.
  • (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
  • * Gray
    • Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
  • (music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
  • A person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
  • Tone, as of a conversation.
  • *
  • (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
  • (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
  • Stamp; character; nature.
  • * Dryden
    • This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor .
  • (legal) 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)
  • That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor .
  • * Spart
    • Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men?

    Derived terms

    * Old Tenor, Middle Tenor, New Tenor

    Coordinate terms

    * (voice types) soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, contralto (female); countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (male)

    See also

    * ("tenor" on Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of or pertaining to the tenor part or range
    • He has a tenor voice.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    tenour

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1790 , (5th ed.), page 48
    • Our political ?y?tem is placed in a ju?t corre?pondence and ?ymmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of exi?tence decreed to a permanent body compo?ed of tran?itory parts; wherein, by the di?po?ition of a ?tupendous wi?dom, moulding together the great my?terious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable con?tancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progre??ion.
  • * 1759 , (Penguin, 2009), page 221
    • It is the consciousness of this merited approbation and esteem which is alone capable of supporting the agent in this tenour of conduct.