tenuity

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That they should be completely transparent through such enormous dimensions shows their extreme tenuity.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

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

The chief principle of the water-frame was the drawing out of the yarn to the required degree of tenuity by sets of gripping rollers revolving at different speeds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

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 Gosse, Philip Henry

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 Darwin, Charles