tenuity
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She had never created for herself an ideal whose tenuity would one day envelop a human being.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
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
If this be so, the action of the Himalayas must be counteracted by subterranean tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 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
All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
