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Webster 1913 Edition


Intext

In′text

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Noun.
The text of a book.
[R.]
Herrick.

Definition 2024


intext

intext

English

Noun

intext (plural intexts)

  1. (archaic) The text of a book.
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  2. A text that makes up part of a larger text.
    • 1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909 (page 89)
      Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.