tenuity

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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

To speak philosophically, there is continuity and correspondence; but spirit and matter are not degrees of the same substance, differing only in tenuity, as is commonly supposed.

From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry

Its two cardinal defects are lack of simplicity of treatment, and tenuity or triviality of the subject, or plot.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane

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

From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John

These are living threads of microscopic tenuity, each extending from a receptive organ to a central nervous mass.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various