contexture
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We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
And in this sense and acceptation of the words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly administer unto us.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
If we give credence, as we ought to, to that word, it will purify us, and it will test of what contexture our faith is.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
London, 1631, and dedicated to Endymion Porter, Esq; Our author in the contexture of this Tragedy, has made use of the Antigone of Sophocles, and the Thebais of Seneca.Cleopatra,
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Theophilus Cibber
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