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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His gums were toothless, his eyes bleared, his figure shrunken to a pitiful tenuity.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
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
The bar that has been tilted into the most perfect compactness, has now to acquire the utmost possible tenuity.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
The bond between the States is of amazing tenuity.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
The structure is exceedingly delicate, the peridium between the ribs and reticulations reduced to the last degree of tenuity, with the iridescence of the soap-bubble, here and there lapsed entirely.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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