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Essence

noun

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum. "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"

Any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted.

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist.

A toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor. Synonym: perfume.

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"Essence" Quotes from Famous Books

... that balance is made up are worth careful scrutiny for the sake of the hints which they offer for future guidance. The essence of their teaching is that we Allies are engaged not in a war of the by-past type in which only our armies and navies are contending with those of the adversary according to accepted rules, but in a tremendous struggle wherein our enemies are deploying all ...

— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon

... yours. Because you have breathed the breath of life into these amiable brethren of wood and field. Because, by a stroke here and a touch there, you have conveyed into their quaint antics the illumination of your own inimitable humor, which is as true to our sun and soil as it is to the spirit and essence ...

— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris

... who understands the nature of the Bodhi-hridaya, sees everything with a loving heart; for love is the essence of Bodhi-hridaya.[1] ...

— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore

... that views about the unseen world are necessarily wholly dependent on personal opinion and feeling is denying the common essence of all human beings. Even though it is true that every one must find light on these things within himself, it is also a fact that all those, who go far enough, arrive at the same, not at different conclusions regarding them. Differences exist only as long as ...

— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner

... derechos e ordenamientos, constituciones e posesiones e prematicas- senciones, e usos e costumbres, ca en cuanto a est oatane yo los abrogo e derogo." (Marina, Teoria, tom. ii. p. 216.) This was the very essence of despotism, and John found it expedient to retract these expressions, on ...

— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott

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