tensure

Latin tensura. See tension.

tensure

1. (obsolete) tension
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered

     Thus death her life became, loss proved her tensure.

• “tensure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• neuters, retunes, run tees, senteur, tenures, tureens, unreset