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English
Etymology
From in + text.
Noun
intext (plural intexts)
- (archaic) The text of a book.
1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine , London: John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho Hunt, , →OCLC, page 267:Beſides rare ſvveets, I had a Book vvhich none / Co'd reade the Intext but my ſelfe alone.
- A text that makes up part of a larger text.
1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909, page 89:Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.
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