Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the same tenor or tone; equable: applied to diseases which have a uniform tenor of rise, state, or declension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the same
tenor ortone ;equable ; withoutvariation .
Etymologies
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Latin homotonus, from Ancient Greek.
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Examples
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No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832
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M and n, though widely dissonant, are often employed by the earlier poets as homotonous.
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"No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense of his original.
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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