tenuity
Example Sentences
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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
The tenuity of the atmosphere on Mars has another consequence.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
The further idea that this transcendently glorious apparition is due to mere words, to a breath—our symbol of tenuity, evanescence, impotence to influence material bulk—heightens enormously the impression of absolutely immeasurable power.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
Birch branches are to be preferred on account of their tenuity.
