Both Uses of
essential
in
Northanger Abbey
- Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.†
Chpt 3 *
- The event which it authorized soon followed: Henry and Catherine were married, the bells rang, and everybody smiled; and, as this took place within a twelvemonth from the first day of their meeting, it will not appear, after all the dreadful delays occasioned by the general's cruelty, that they were essentially hurt by it.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something