subtileness
- a word derived from subtile.
Example Sentences
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His very blood seemed to flow through all his arteries with unwonted subtileness, when he thought that the same tide flowed through the mystic veins of Isabel.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
It weighs 4.273 oz. per sq. ft. more than the heaviest of coat-furs, and is so rigid as to be uncomfortable, while the subtileness of fur makes it “kind” to the body.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
And some did hold that there went from it a further vibration of a greater subtileness that gave a protecting against the Evil Forces.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
