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Definition of '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.