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Definition of Interspersal

1. Noun. The act of combining one thing at intervals among other things. "The interspersion of illustrations in the text"

Definition of Interspersal

1. Noun. interspersion ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Interspersal

Literary usage of Interspersal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"21, a), with the difference that interspersal is a much more common feature, and the distinction of the two kinds of cells may be made without any ..."

2. A Manual of the North American Gymnosperms: Exclusive of the Cycadales But by David Pearce Penhallow (1907)
"In Picea there is a somewhat stronger tendency to an interspersal which is only expressed fully in Pinus. In the soft pines eleven out of thirteen species ..."

3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1904)
"... and that no small part of the charm of the book is due to the interspersal from opening to close of first-hand information. Mr. Hornaday has also a word ..."

4. Memoir of William and Robert Chambers by William Chambers (1884)
"the servants-hall of great houses,* while waiting in lugubrious habiliments to head the funeral solemnity— his stories reminding one of the interspersal of ..."

5. Mental Adjustments by Frederic Lyman Wells (1917)
"... has the elegiac meter, and for the most part elegiac diction, but displaces the naturally tragic note through an interspersal of puns, in the following ..."

6. The European Tour by Grant Allen (1899)
"... landed families has preserved for its fields a charming interspersal of august timber and a paternal care for rustic beauty hardly dreamt of elsewhere. ..."

7. Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg (1918)
"... The breadth of a man's finger, And this ivory loin cloth Speaks an interspersal in the day's work, The carver's prayer and whim And Christ-love. ..."

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