intertexture

American  

[in-ter-teks-cher] / ˌɪn tərˈtɛks tʃər /

noun

1. the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.

2. something formed by interweaving.

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intertexture British  

/ ˌɪntəˈtɛkstʃə /

noun

1. the act or process of interweaving or the condition of having been interwoven

2. something that has been interwoven

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Etymology

Origin of intertexture

First recorded in 1640–50; inter- + texture

Example Sentences

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intertexture

At length, after walking a long way in the woods, we arrived at another thicket, through the intertexture of which was glimmering a pale rosy light.

From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George

But though accepting and enforcing the doctrine by showing that the 'mixture is too subtle, the intertexture too ineffable' to admit of expression, he condemns the style which is the best illustration of its truth.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

His hair was cropped close, and the unevennesses of his cranium, thus laid bare, would have struck a phrenologist by reason of the strange intertexture of contradictory propensities.

From A Hero of Our Time by Wisdom, J. H.

It is for want of this artful intertexture, and those necessary changes, that the whole of a book may be tedious, though all the parts are praised.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

The object of the former was to point out the general threads of primeval truth in the fabric of Paganism—that of the latter to trace the later and fanciful intertexture of superstition.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich