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Webster 1913 Edition
Tenuity
1.
The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long;
as, the
tenuity
of a leaf; the tenuity
of a hair.2.
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid;
as, the
. tenuity
of the air; the tenuity
of the bloodBacon.
3.
Poverty; indigence.
[Obs.]
Eikon Basilike.
4.
Refinement; delicacy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tenuity
TENU'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Thinness, smallness in diameter; exility; thinness, applied to a broad substance, and slenderness, applied to one that is long; as the tenuity of paper or of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair or filament.2.
Rarity; rareness; thinness; as of a fluid; as the tenuity of the air in the higher regions of the atmosphere; the tenuity of the blood.3.
Poverty. [Not in use.]