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ˈfine-ˌspun, a.
[f. fine adv. + spun ppl. a.]
1. Spun or drawn out to extreme tenuity; delicate in texture, flimsy.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. Ep. Ded., When men had wrought up all the Woman within them that was feeble and glowing, into a fine-spun thread. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1718) 20 The Solids are so fine-spun. 1798W. Sotheby tr. Wieland's Oberon (1826) II. 152 Fine-spun as if aërial spiders wove a web to deck, not hide the form of love. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 33 The fine-spun, gay-coloured ribbons of allegory.
2. fig. Elaborated to flimsiness, excessively subtle or refined.
1647Sir R. Fanshawe tr. Guarino's Pastor Fido ii. vi. 13 That Mistresse in the art of making The fine-spun lyes, that sels so deer False words, false hopes and a false leer. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 161, I am an Enemy to the fine-spun Notions, some Men do..advance concerning them. 1842Emerson Nat., Transcendentalist Wks. (Bohn) II. 280 The materialist..mocks at fine-spun theories. |