All 4 Uses of
essential
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- It is sometimes essential to government to cause a man's disappearance without leaving any traces, so that no written forms or documents may defeat their wishes.
Chpt 13-14essential = necessary or important
- Well, these twelve thousand livres are his civil list, and are as essential to him as the twelve millions of a king.
Chpt 17-18 *essential = important
- Albert remarked this, expressing his fears lest, at the outset, the Parisian mode of life should displease the traveller in the most essential point.
Chpt 39-40
- Then I will go to the governor of Algeria; he has a royal heart, and is essentially a soldier; I will tell him my gloomy story.
Chpt 105-106essentially = 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