Definition of Tenson

1. a competition in verse [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenson

tensional
tensionally
tensioned
tensioner
tensioners
tensioning
tensionless
tensions
tensities
tensity
tensive
tensome
tensomes
tensometer
tensometers
tenson (current term)
tensons
tensor
tensor fascia lata
tensor fasciae latae
tensor muscle of fascia lata
tensor muscle of soft palate
tensor muscle of tympanic membrane
tensor tarsi muscle
tensor tympani
tensor veli palati muscle
tensored
tensorial
tensorially
tensoring

Literary usage of Tenson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"Little direct influence of the North-French tenson or jeu parti or feigned tenson can be suspected. It is rather, to narrative French poems imitative of the ..."

2. History of Provençal Poetry by Claude Charles Fauriel (1860)
"The term tenson was applied to colloquial pieces, in which two or more interlocutors ... And indeed all the questions of the tenson are of this description, ..."

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