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Quintessence   /kwɪntˈɛsəns/   Listen
Quintessence

noun
1.
The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies.  Synonym: ether.
2.
The purest and most concentrated essence of something.
3.
The most typical example or representative of a type.





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"Quintessence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hegel Krochmal admits that the resultants from the historical development of a people form the quintessence of its existence. [Footnote: See chapters IX, XVI, and others; also M. Bernfeld, Da'at Elohim ("The Knowledge of God"); and M. Landau, Die Bibel und der Hegelianismus (Dissertation).] But what he does not believe ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz
... as your institutions are founded on reason and nature, judge," I continued, "that you would be more disposed ta cultivate this member than to mutilate it; and this the more especially, as I understand all monikins believe it to be the very quintessence ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper
... of the things that makes up the law of compensation. The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of ...
— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter
... 101 of whose propositions were formally condemned by Pope Clement XI in his famous Constitution "Unigenitus."(225) The Jansenistic teachings of the Council of Pistoia were censured by Pius VI, A. D. 1794, in his Bull "Auctorem fidei." The quintessence of this heretical system is embodied in the proposition that whatever a man does in the state of mortal sin is necessarily sinful for the reason that he is not in the state of grace (status caritatis). Baius(226) ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle
... before her and kissed her dress and her hands. "I love you boundlessly," he said with panting breath; "you are to me the quintessence of all happiness, virtue, and beauty. I shall love you to the last hour ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach


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