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intext

intext noun: the text of a book.

Noun

intext (plural intexts)

  1. (archaic) The text of a book.
    • Beſides rare ſvveets, I had a Book vvhich none / Co'd reade the Intext but my ſelfe alone.1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC...
  2. A text that makes up part of a larger text.
    • Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909, page 89

Forms of intext

pluralintexts

Origin of intext

From in + text.

Questions about intext

What does intext mean?
Intext means the text of a book.
What part of speech is intext?
Intext is a noun.
What is the plural of intext?
The plural of intext is intexts.

Words near intext in the dictionary

  1. intestinovesical
  2. intestosomatic
  3. intetumumab
  4. intexine
  5. intexines
  6. intext
  7. intexticated
  8. intextine
  9. intextines
  10. intexts
  11. intextured

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