tenuity

Example Sentences

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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

She should have kept her nerves to herself, rasped, as they were to a treacherous tenuity.

From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by Sinclair, May

His gums were toothless, his eyes bleared, his figure shrunken to a pitiful tenuity.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

Another and yet more remarkable observation is on record which goes far to prove not only the tenuity, but the transparency of a cometary nucleus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

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