Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
tenuous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to
dense .
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- adjective obsolete
rare orsubtle ;tenuous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or it may with great probability be supposed that 'tis a very hard and painful thing for them to force their thin and _tenuious_ bodies into a visible consistence, and such shapes as are necessary for their designs in their correspondence with witches.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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Emma went through a sphere of tenuious reflections in a flash.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Emma went through a sphere of tenuious reflections in a flash.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Emma went through a sphere of tenuious reflections in a flash.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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And we may observe this departure of the subtiler and stronger Spirits, out of the harder and grosser parts of the Body, into the more soft and tenuious, in a certain Spirituous Liquor, which is congealed with great cold, where the stronger
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692
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