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
THE disembodied soul, as conceived by the Greeks, and after them by the Romans, is material, but of so thin a contexture that it cannot be felt with the hands.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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
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
It was of a loose watrish contexture, such an one, as he had seen growing out of rotten wood.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
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