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English
Etymology
From Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tenuious (comparative more tenuious, superlative most tenuious)
- (archaic) Rare or subtle; tenuous.
1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:more tenuious Substance , as was above observed , than that very igneous Substance mentioned in the third Proposition
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:A tenuious emanation or continued effluvium, which after some distance retracteth into itself; as is observable in drops of syrups, oil, and seminal viscosities […]
Usage notes
- Though the correct Latinate formation, this word has been largely supplanted by the irregularly formed tenuous.