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
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
In his opinion, anything which unnecessarily tore to pieces the contexture of the state not only prevented all real reformation, but introduced evils which would call, but perhaps call in vain, for new reformation.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
These threads that compose this fine contexture, though they are as small as those that constitute the finer sorts of Silks, have notwithstanding nothing of their glossie, pleasant, and lively reflection.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
Of the first of these materials, tortoise-shell, that best adapted to manufacturing purposes is the shell, or scales of a horny contexture which inclose the sea-tortoise, Testudo imbricata.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
