intertexture

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noun

The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounintertexture (countable and uncountable, plural intertextures)

plural intertextures

  1. countableuncountableThe act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.
  2. countableuncountableThat which is interwoven.

    knit in nice intertexture

    1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To a Friend
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    skirted thick with intertexture firm / Of thorny boughs

    1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC

    Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed when in an unexcited or a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling

    1800, William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, Preface

    At length, after walking a long way in the woods, we arrived at another thicket, through the intertexture of which was glimmering a pale rosy light.

    1858, George MacDonald, Phantastes

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intertexture,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intertexture.

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