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

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

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

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.

Or is it true, as Shelley seems to aver that such a poem is never an ideal unity, but a collection of inspired lines and phrases connected "by the intertexture of conventional phrases?"

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

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