All 5 Uses of
essential
in
Moby Dick
- Thinks I, Queequeg, under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture; but, the truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what you will; it is marvellous how essentially polite they are.
Chpt 4-6 *essentially = basically (relating to the basic nature of something)
- Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.
Chpt 25-27essential = basic (related to the basic facts or principles)
- The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.
Chpt 31-33essential = important or necessary
- Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English.
Chpt 52-54essential = important
- The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
Chpt 124-126essentially = basically (relating to the basic nature of something)
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something