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Bedrock

noun

Solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil.

Principles from which other truths can be derived. Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals. "Let's get down to basics"

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"Bedrock" Quotes from Famous Books

... reasons. He is young, and very kind and gentle. He is one of the biggest and finest-looking men you could find. He is a man whom no one could despise, for he has nothing despicable about him. But, best of all, he is true, and that, I think, is the bedrock of all virtues." ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... He is one of the biggest and finest-looking men you could find. He is a man whom no one could despise, for he has nothing despicable about him. But, best of all, he is true, and that, I think, is the bedrock of all virtues." ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... bedrock forms a corrugated surface consisting of more or less parallel mountain ranges and broad intervening troughs that are filled to great depths with rock waste washed from the mountains. These great deposits of rock waste were in large part laid down by torrential streams and are ...

— Reno - A Book of Short Stories and Information • Lilyan Stratton

... changed our resting-place and went out to camp under a rocky eminence. There with a bedrock of austere granite we slept in peace. At glimmer of dawn we were saddling up. We rode to another kraal, but the folk there ...

— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... is on Bonanza Creek, claim ninety-six, below; There may be millions in it, and there may not; none will know Until he gets to bedrock or till bedrock comes to him— For Arthur takes it easy and is strictly ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various