tenuity

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The travelling organs, moreover, increase in size in proportion to the tenuity of the fluid to be acted upon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

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

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

What is it for a man to set his thoughts on sublunary things but, as it were, a tenuity of mind?

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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