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

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 Elizabeth Atkins

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

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

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

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