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Definition of Tensest
1. tense [adj] - See also: tense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tensest
Literary usage of Tensest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... broad and fertile plains, bathed in in tensest •unshine; arid waste«, impenetrable
forests, undulating hilly countries, and elevated plateaux. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It is in giving voice, not to emotion at its tensest, but to the variations of
emotion, it is in expressing the countless shifting movements of the soul ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"There are those whose im- It is in giving voice, not to emotion at its tensest,
but to the variations of emotion, it is in expressing the countless shifting ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is in giving voice, not to emotion at its tensest, but to the variations of
emotion, it is in expressing the countless shifting movements of the soul ..."
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