tenuious

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/tɪˈnjuː.i.əs/

adjective

Rare or subtle; tenuous.

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Meanings

adjectivetenuious (comparative more tenuious, superlative most tenuious)

comparative more tenuious · superlative most tenuious

  1. archaicRare or subtle; tenuous.

    more tenuious Substance , as was above observed , than that very igneous Substance mentioned in the third Proposition

    1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus
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    A tenuious emanation or continued effluvium, which after some distance retracteth into itself; as is observable in drops of syrups, oil, and seminal viscosities[…]

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous.

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