| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement: amount, drift, import, purport, substance, tenor. Idioms: sum and substance, sum total. See MEANING. 2. The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse: aim, drift, intent, meaning, purport, substance, tendency, tenor, thrust. See MEANING.
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