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

I know not where else in literature to look for a work which leaves such a strong impression on the reader's mind of the intertexture of human lives.

From Mathilde Blind by Eliot, George

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 sense is carried on through a long intertexture of complicated clauses, and, as nothing is distinguished, nothing is remembered.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Johnson, Samuel

None the less it shows in an eminent degree one of the influences which guided that movement: the intimate intertexture of a spiritual sense with a material form; small actualities made vocal of lofty meanings.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel