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 MacKenzie, Compton

In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 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 Kennedy, W. Sloane

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

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

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 Holcombe, William Henry