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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He saw the heads of his classmates meekly bent as they wrote in their notebooks the points they were bidden to note, nominal definitions, essential definitions and examples or dates of birth or death, chief works, a favourable and an unfavourable criticism side by side.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something