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TENOR (through Fr. and It. from See also: drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse, hence, in See also: law, the true purport and effect of a deed or instrument
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The most general use of the word is, in See also: music, for the highest kind of the natural adult male See also: voice
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This use descends from the See also: Medieval Latin tenor, which was applied first to the chief melody, the cantus firmus, and then to the male voice to which the singing of this was assigned
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