tenuity

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If the figure about "cups which cheer but not inebriate" had not been worn to the finest tenuity, I might at once give it, here, application and illustration.

From Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. by Doran, Dr. John

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

By this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

How can we imagine such powerful resilience combined with such extreme tenuity?

From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John

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