Bible Dictionaries
Keynote
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; - called also key tone.
(2):
(n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Keynote'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/k/keynote.html. 1828.