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noun

Intermixture n.

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.

Admixture; an additional ingredient. "In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly."

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Etymology of 'Intermixture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intermixture" Quotes from Famous Books

... of these genial attachments of women with persons not of their own sex, we come to those whose relation is that of a wholly free and elective friendship, a friendship with no intermixture either of hereditary connections or of family obligations. This brings us directly to an examination of that species of affection celebrated through the world as Platonic love; on which so many false judgments, inadequate judgments, coarse judgments, ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... male and female organs together [i.e. in the same flower] yet receive influence from other plants? Does not Lyell give some argument about varieties being difficult to keep [true] on account of pollen from other plants? Because this may be applied to show all plants do receive intermixture." ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... of justice, an old crafty fanatic, who for forty years had complied in all things with all governments. Though these were rigid pres-byterians, the king, to humour the opposite party, admitted some individuals of the episcopal nobility to the council-board; and this intermixture, instead of allaying animosities, served only to sow the seeds of discord and confusion. The Scottish convention, in their detail of grievances, enumerated the lords of the articles; the act of parliament in the reign of Charles II. by which the king's supremacy was raised ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... condition that the company procured a grant from the crown for pasture. This was declined; but Lord Camden was requested by their lordships to encourage Macarthur, and he received in consequence permission to occupy the cow pastures, where natural fences prevented the intermixture of his flocks. A grant of 5,000 acres—ultimately of an additional 5,000—was made to him. Never was a reward more justly due, or given with ...

— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West

... aim of the Government is to rule the inhabitants through men of their own race, not to substitute foreigners for natives; and if fault can be found with this policy it is that too little restraint is put upon the intermixture of ...

— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

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