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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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
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
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
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
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