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
Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
A good writer will not coil them up and press them into the narrowest possible space, nor macerate them into such particles that nothing shall be remaining of their natural contexture.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
A description of the shape and curious contexture of Feathers: and some conjectures thereupon.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
