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                    "description": "tĕnŭĭtas (noun F) : ātis.  tenuis\n* Thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity (class.).\n* Lit.: casurusne in conspectum videatur animus, an tanta sit ejus tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem,Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50: valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,slimness,id. Brut. 16, 64: crurum,Phaedr. 1, 12, 6: aëris, rarity (with siccitas), Sen. Q. N. 2, 10, 1: lini,Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9: chartae,id. 13, 12, 24, § 79: capillamenti,id. 11, 37, 65, § 171: liniam duxit summae tenuitatis per tabulam,id. 35, 10, 36, § 81: caudae,id. 8, 33, 51, § 121: cribri,id. 18, 11, 27, § 105: aquae,thinness, clearness, purity,id. 31, 3, 23, § 38; cf. sanguinis,id. 11, 39, 92, § 226 et saep.\n* Transf. (acc. to tenuis, I. B.), smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity: Magii,Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265: alicujus,Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 4; Caes. B. G. 7, 17: aerarii,Cic. Off. 2, 21, 74: earum rerum, quas terra procreet, vel ubertatem vel tenuitatem,id. Div. 2, 13, 30.\n* Trop., fineness, acuteness, minuteness in language: limata tenuitas et rerum et verborum,Cic. Fin. 3, 12, 40; id. Opt. Gen. Or. 3, 9: (dialectica) sectas ad tenuitatem suam vires ipsā subtilitate consumet,Quint. 12, 2, 13; 12, 10, 35; 10, 2, 23: discriminum ac differentiarum tenuitates,fine shades,Gell. 1, 3, 29."
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