tenuity
Example Sentences
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The golden panicles of the great Quake-grass, so curiously compacted and hanging in stalks of so hair-like a tenuity as to nod and tremble with the slightest motion, how beautiful are these!
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
With this in his hand, the workman carefully traces the outlines of his drawing, which the tenuity of the saw-blade allows the tool to follow into every curve and angle.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
In practice the average degree of tenuity to which the gold is reduced is not nearly so great as the last example quoted above.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 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 W. de W. Abney
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 William Henry Holcombe
