All 7 Uses of
essential
in
Bleak House
- The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a disinterested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end.
Chpt Pref.essential = important thing
- She felt it with a mother's anguish to be a move in the Wat Tyler direction, well knowing that Sir Leicester had that general impression of an aptitude for any art to which smoke and a tall chimney might be considered essential.
Chpt 7-9essential = necessary or important
- That I had not that delicate knowledge of the heart which must be essential to such a work.
Chpt 7-9 *essential = necessary
- My little apartment here, my few essentials for the toilet, my frugal morning meal, and my little dinner will suffice.
Chpt 22-24essentials = necessary things
- Returning with these triumphs of toughness tied up in a clean blue and white cotton handkerchief (essential to the arrangements), he in a casual manner invites Mrs. Bagnet to declare at breakfast what she would like for dinner.
Chpt 49-51essential = necessary
- And not the least amazing circumstance connected with her being vaguely the town talk is that people hovering on the confines of Mr. Sladdery's high connexion, people who know nothing and ever did know nothing about her, think it essential to their reputation to pretend that she is their topic too, and to retail her at secondhand with the last new word and the last new manner, and the last new drawl, and the last new polite indifference, and all the rest of it, all at second-hand but…
Chpt 58-60
- Now, Skimpole wishes to think well of Bucket; Skimpole deems it essential, in its little place, to the general cohesion of things, that he SHOULD think well of Bucket.
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something