contexture

American  

[kuhn-teks-cher] / kənˈtɛks tʃər /

noun

1. the arrangement and union of the constituent parts of anything; constitution; structure.

2. an interwoven structure; fabric.

3. the act of weaving together.

4. the process or manner of being woven together.

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contexture British  

/ kənˈtɛkstʃə /

noun

1. the fact, process, or manner of weaving or of being woven together

2. the arrangement of assembled parts; structure

3. an interwoven structure; fabric

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Other Word Forms

• contextural
  adjective
• contextured
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of contexture

From French, dating back to 1595–1605; see origin at context, -ure

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Example Sentences

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contexture

We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017

His dissimulation was of a stronger contexture, and not to be broken even by sorrow and confinement.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward

Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, are the things that hold together the great contexture of the mysterious whole.

From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Robert I. Fulton

Unusuall words oft used give lesse offence; Nor will the old contexture dim or marre, For often us’d they’re next to old, thred-bare.

From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More

All these are so interwoven, that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole, and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate, the value of all the parts.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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