tenuity

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The bond between the States is of amazing tenuity.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

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

If the figure about "cups which cheer but not inebriate" had not been worn to the finest tenuity, I might at once give it, here, application and illustration.

From Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. by Doran, Dr. John

In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

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