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Tenuity   Listen
noun
Tenuity  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
2.
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
3.
Poverty; indigence. (Obs.)
4.
Refinement; delicacy.





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"Tenuity" Quotes from Famous Books



... the country. Mrs. Verver's straight neck had certainly not slipped it; nor had the other end of the long cord—oh, quite conveniently long!—disengaged its smaller loop from the hooked thumb that, with his fingers closed upon it, her husband kept out of sight. To have recognised, for all its tenuity, the play of this gathered lasso might inevitably be to wonder with what magic it was twisted, to what tension subjected, but could never be to doubt either of its adequacy to its office or of its perfect ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James


Words linked to "Tenuity" :   denseness, tenuous, thinness, density, dimension, low density, slenderness


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