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
Of the contexture of events planned by the author, which is called the action of the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment can he made.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
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
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
