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Meanings of tenuity in English

Catalan
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Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width.

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A rarified quality.

The quality of lacking intensity or substance.

Usage of tenuity in English
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The possibility of rare creation depends on rare material, on spirit-like tenuity.
Among the Forces
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By boldly diffusing in space a medium of the requisite tenuity and elasticity.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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This curtain, of fairy-like tenuity, was transparent, and did not interrupt the view.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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But the grounds on which this assertion is based are wonderful in their tenuity.
The Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science
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The bond between the States is of an amazing tenuity.
American Notes
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Air, in every degree of tenuity, refuses to act as a conductor of electricity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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The greater the tenuity the greater the creative results.
Among the Forces
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He can hold the attention longer than any poet of an equal tenuity of matter.
Aspects of Literature
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When taken in connection with its tenuity, these features show a highly developed potter's technique.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 / Seventeenth Annual...
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Faces of thin shadow, faces of gaseous tenuity.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
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The character of the elegy is gentleness and tenuity, but this stanza has been pronounced by Dryden.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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STRAWBERRY.-Amongthe Greeks, the name of the strawberry indicated its tenuity, this fruit forming hardly a mouthful.
The Book of Household Management
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The irresistible logic of the brain stretched to an abnormal tenuity, and an intolerable brightness was with him.
The World for Sale, Volume 2.
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The first thing that arrests our attention in these creatures is the extreme delicacy and tenuity of their substance.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 / Volume 17, New Series, F...
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If it were an object to rival the tenuity of the finest India muslin, machinery could easily accomplish it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ...
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The tenuity of this veil is such that it admits of our seeing the stars through the auroral plates.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 / A Maga...
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Tenuity through the time