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
Now, here the beloved apostle shows us this divine contexture of the gospel.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Then Sella hung the slippers in the porch Of that broad rustic lodge, and all who passed Admired their fair contexture, but none knew Who left them by the brook.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
A description of the shape and curious contexture of Feathers: and some conjectures thereupon.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert
