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intext en · NOUN

Etymology

From in + text.

Meanings

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, page 267:
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:

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