tenuity

Noun

Meaning

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.

Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.

Poverty; indigence.

Refinement; delicacy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity. Simón Bolívar

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