tenuity

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The golden panicles of the great Quake-grass, so curiously compacted and hanging in stalks of so hair-like a tenuity as to nod and tremble with the slightest motion, how beautiful are these!

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

What is it for a man to set his thoughts on sublunary things but, as it were, a tenuity of mind?

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

With all Shelley’s splendid imagery and colour, I find a sort of tenuity in his poetry.”

From Tennyson and His Friends 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 chief principle of the water-frame was the drawing out of the yarn to the required degree of tenuity by sets of gripping rollers revolving at different speeds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various