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

THE disembodied soul, as conceived by the Greeks, and after them by the Romans, is material, but of so thin a contexture that it cannot be felt with the hands.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Collateral events are so artfully woven into the contexture of his principal story, that they cannot be disjoined without leaving it lacerated and broken.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

All these are so interwoven, that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole, and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate, the value of all the parts.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Now, here the beloved apostle shows us this divine contexture of the gospel.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh