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tenuious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /tɪˈnjuː.i.əs/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic) Rare or subtle; tenuous.
   • 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:
   • 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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