intertexture

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English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ texture.

Noun

intertexture (countable and uncountable, plural intertextures)

  1. The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.
  2. That which is interwoven.
    • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To a Friend:
      knit in nice intertexture
    • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, , London: J Johnson;  , →OCLC:
      skirted thick with intertexture firm / Of thorny boughs
    • 1800, William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, Preface:
      Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed when in an unexcited or a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling
    • 1858, George MacDonald, Phantastes:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intertexture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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