tenuity

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How can we imagine such powerful resilience combined with such extreme tenuity?

From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John

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

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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

The travelling organs, moreover, increase in size in proportion to the tenuity of the fluid to be acted upon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various