All 3 Uses of
tenuous
in
The Lovely Bones
- To see them together was like a tenuous belief made real.†
Chpt 19
- A tenuous and sudden memory.†
Chpt 22 *
- These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections—sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent—that happened after I was gone.†
Chpt 23
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.