All 3 Uses of
essential
in
David Copperfield
- 'I so far agree with what Miss Trotwood has remarked,' observed Miss Murdstone, bridling, 'that I consider our lamented Clara to have been, in all essential respects, a mere child.'
Chpt 13-15 *essential = important
- It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions.
Chpt 46-48essentials = important ways
- I don't know that I thought it very reasonable; but I thought it very delightful, and essentially a part of their character.
Chpt 58-60essentially = 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