tenuity

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

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

All, therefore, concurs to prove the extreme tenuity of the substance of irregular nebul�.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

Another and yet more remarkable observation is on record which goes far to prove not only the tenuity, but the transparency of a cometary nucleus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

An example of different degrees of purity will be found in washes of water-colours of different tenuity.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.

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 Gore, J. Ellard