Definition of "tenour" [tenour]

• Alternative spelling of tenor. (noun)

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• ""The tenour of your talk led me on to believe —" she stammered with hot cheeks."
• "Mrs. Tyrold, and the gentle voice of my Camilla, in accents yet more gentle than even that voice ever spoke before, answering some question; I was not myself, at first, aware of its tenour ... but when, unavoidably,"
• "Ever ready to abandon, and most willing to condemn me, you have more confidence in a vague conjecture, than in all you have observed of the whole tenour of my character."