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Slenderness

noun

The quality of being slight or inadequate. "The slenderness of the chances that anything would be done" , "The slenderness of the evidence"

Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width. Synonyms: tenuity, thinness. "The thinness of a rope"

The property of an attractively thin person. Synonyms: slightness, slimness.

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"Slenderness" Quotes from Famous Books

... hollow-eyed face, so that its ivory whiteness, its fatigue, its fretful beauty were framed in and emphasized by them; her bloodless hands lay upon her lap, and the folds of the sweeping dress drawn round her showed her slenderness, or rather her emaciation. Two years before this date Madeleine Verrier had been a great beauty, and she had never yet reconciled herself to physical losses which were but the outward and visible sign of losses "far more deeply interfused." As she sat apparently ...

— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... reverence for the pure affection of the offered salute. He fancied that her lips trembled for a moment as they rested softly warm, upon his own. But the tremor might have been his own. He knew his heart was pounding against the slight touch of her slenderness that was manifest with womanhood. His arms ached with the restraint he set upon them, despite the presence ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... abundance of her hair, another the slenderness of her form, the slimness of her ankles, and the smallness of her tiny hands and feet. One maiden remarked to another—but loud enough to be heard—on the brightness of her eyes which were clearer than the sapphires on her brow, while the Athenian waiting-woman, Thais, declared ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... pressed Ruth's slenderness against her more robust body reassuringly. "I don't despise folks, as a rule.... Want ...

— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

... that hers were both becoming and "decent." Modeled after the usual riding costume, both coat and breeches were youthfully, rather than mannishly, tailored; and the narrow, vertical stripe of the dark gray material served to make her slenderness almost girlish. In short, what with her poet-style hair, her independent manner and direct speech, she was far more like a boy of twenty than a ...

— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint

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