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Tensure vs Tonsure - What's the difference?

tensure | tonsure |

As a noun tensure

is (obsolete) tension.

As a verb tonsure is

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tensure

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) tension
    • (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)

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    tonsure

    English

    (wikipedia tonsure)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (Christianity) To subject to the often ritual shaving of the crown of the head as a sign of humility and one's religious vocation. Some tonsures were more dramatic than others, leaving only a fringe of hair. Abolished by Vatican II in the Roman Catholic Church.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bald patch resulting from being tonsured.