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

In his opinion, anything which unnecessarily tore to pieces the contexture of the state not only prevented all real reformation, but introduced evils which would call, but perhaps call in vain, for new reformation.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The contexture and combining of this monarchy and great building having been dismissed and dissolved by it, namely, in her old years, giveth as much overture and entrance as a man will to like injuries.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

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

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 Donne, John