All 3 Uses of
essential
in
Emma
- Mr. Weston had accompanied her to Mrs. Bates's, and gone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely; but she having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing, was now returned with much more to say, and much more to say with satisfaction, than a quarter of an hour spent in Mrs. Bates's parlour, with all the encumbrance of awkward feelings, could have afforded.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- — In order to assist a concealment so essential to me, I was led on to make more than an allowable use of the sort of intimacy into which we were immediately thrown.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- And, in fact, you have heard all the essential already.†
Chpt 3.15-16 *
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something