commixture

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The volume of rain produced in the Condor’s water cycle is enormous, says Luna, thanks to a unique commixture of altitudes, endemic soils, and solar and wind patterns.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Mixture -- N. mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion†; commixion†, intermixture, alloyage†, matrimony; junction &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

In the fifth "eglogue" Roget and Alexis compare notes about their early happiness in phrases of an odd commixture.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

What a sudden burst of sound was emitted—what harmonious discord—what a commixture of all the tones in the vocal gamut, from the shrill treble to the deep underhum! 

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin

My companion got up, giving him a thin glance which I caught in its passage, and which expressed a strange commixture of resignation and fascination,—a sort of perverted exaltation.

From Four Meetings by James, Henry