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

Unusuall words oft used give lesse offence; Nor will the old contexture dim or marre, For often us’d they’re next to old, thred-bare.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

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

A theory, in short, which for the reason is a veritable contexture of confusions.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The contexture of so great a body holds by more nails than one.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia