tenuity
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Origin of tenuity
1525–35; < Latin tenuitās thinness, equivalent to tenui ( s ) ( see tenuis) + -tās -ty 2
Example Sentences
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This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
Histologically, the perisarc or test in the Graptoloidea appears to be composed of three layers, a middle layer of variable structure, and an overlying and an underlying layer of remarkable tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
She had never created for herself an ideal whose tenuity would one day envelop a human being.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
Around the Lamasery rise, numerous and without order, towers or pyramids, slender and tapering, resting generally on huge bases, little in harmony with the tenuity of the constructions they support.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis
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