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tensure

tensure noun: tension.

Noun

tensure

  1. (obsolete) tension
    • Thus death her life became, loss proved her tensure.1600, Edward Fairfax, translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered

Origin of tensure

Latin tensura. See tension.

Questions about tensure

What does tensure mean?
Tensure means tension.
What part of speech is tensure?
Tensure is a noun.

Words near tensure in the dictionary

  1. tensorizes
  2. tensorizing
  3. tensors
  4. tenstrike
  5. tenstrikes
  6. tensure
  7. tent
  8. tent bed
  9. tent beds
  10. tent camping
  11. tent caterpillar

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