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The faculties of the parents, as far as these are concerned, may have oscillated for the time towards the extreme of tensibility in one direction. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

Natural or inherent force, is a part of the constitution of the fibre, and is as much a property of its organization as are its tenacity, tensibility, &c.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin