intertexture
Americannoun
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the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.
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something formed by interweaving.
noun
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the act or process of interweaving or the condition of having been interwoven
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something that has been interwoven
Etymology
Origin of intertexture
Example Sentences
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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 Friedrich Schlegel
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 Samuel Johnson
Pliny says King Attalus invented the intertexture of cloth with gold; but the weaving of damasks of a variety of colours was perfected at Babylon, and thence they were called Babylonian.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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 George Eliot
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