subtilty
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Rarity is the contrary of density; it denotes the thinness and subtilty of bodies: thus you would say that mercury or quicksilver was a very dense fluid; ether, a very rare one.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones
On these and on many other points of scholastic philosophy the Seraphic Doctor exhibits a combination of subtilty and moderation which makes his works peculiarly valuable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Why stoop to the subtilty of circumspection, to spare himself the appearance of destroying one whose head, heart, and vitals, all feel the reality of the destruction he inflicts?
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
I, Wisdom, have made subtilty my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
But the fineness, the subtilty, the changefulness of line, are endlessly charming; they may have other uses, but if they had been made for pure beauty it would be use enough.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
Celibacy gives a restless activity to researches, intrigues, and business—a sort of huntsman's eagerness—a sharpness in the subtilties of school-divinity and disputation: this is at least the effect it had in its prime.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Even an illiterate man is interesting when he talks of his craft, and Martin Collingwood, however little natural development he had in social subtilties, was anything but illiterate or even ill informed.
From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee
He had little respect for subtilties or refinements or scruples that stood in the way.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
At dinner, he pecks at, rather than eats, ruffs and reeves, lapwings, or anie smalle birds it may chance; but affects sweets and subtilties, and loves a cup of wine or ale, stirred with rosemary.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
Besides I neuer trusted them but vpon good ground, as one that had discouered a thousand of their crafts and subtilties, aswell by experience as by reading of the histories of late yeres.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
