All 3 Uses of
tenuous
in
Not Without My Daughter
- I was sick, enervated, depressed, losing my tenuous hold on reality.†
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- I now had some freedom, tenuous though it was.†
- It brought a tenuous peace, a strange existence that in its outward particulars was easier, calmer, safer, but where the tensions ran deeper.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(tenuous) weak or having little substance
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, tenuous can mean that something is thin in consistency or diameter.