Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being quintessential..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The quality of being quintessential.
2. (countable) Something that is quintessential.

Example Sentences

Every corner therefore was crowded, save only that one box which, as in a microcosm, is wont to contain the very quintessentiality of the fashion and ton of London.

At all events, the spirit of these great fathers of the first philosophy was upon him, and Humbughausen was a concentrated quintessentiality of them all,—one, to whom dreaming was a natural condition; one who, while his external senses were proof against the rudest impressions, could do so much better without them, as to be intuitively conversant not only with all actual, but all possible existence.

The ability to rule, the power to stand alone and to swing the club, the power to take and, having taken, to keep, was the very quintessentiality of his existence.

We have heard so much about the sins of big business that we have come to regard little business as the quintessentiality of innocent martyrdom.

It instigates, begins, leaves off, and then continues, rousiag to action the hearer’s innate need of an aim and an order and meaning in things. Its subtle gestures, its brief, sharp, delicate phrases, its quintessentiality, are like the thrusting open of doors into the interiors of the conscience, the opening of windows on long vistas, are like the breaking of light upon obscured memories and buried emotions.

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