Meanings
plural intertextures
- countableuncountableThe act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.
- countableuncountableThat which is interwoven.
knit in nice intertexture
1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To a Friend3 more examples
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; […], →OCLCNow 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, PrefaceAt 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
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