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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TENOR (through Fr. and It. from
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Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a
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law,
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tone)  , a
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general course or direction, the
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drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse, hence, in
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law, the true purport and effect of a
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deed or
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instrument . The most general use of the word is, in
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music, for the highest
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kind of the natural adult male
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voice . This use descends from the
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Medieval Latin
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tenor, which was applied first to the
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chief
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melody, the cantus firmus, and then to the male voice to which the singing of this was assigned .

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