tenuity
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It is whether the nucleus of a comet is an opaque solid body, a cluster of such bodies, or a mass of particles of extreme tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" 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
With all Shelley’s splendid imagery and colour, I find a sort of tenuity in his poetry.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
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 W. Sloane Kennedy
This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
