contexture
Example Sentences
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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
The contexture and combining of this monarchy and great building having been dismissed and dissolved by it, namely, in her old years, giveth as much overture and entrance as a man will to like injuries.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
A theory, in short, which for the reason is a veritable contexture of confusions.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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
All these are so interwoven, that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole, and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate, the value of all the parts.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
