All 3 Uses of
essential
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- …creation of such worlds as these that seemed to Dorian Gray to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual…
Chpt 11essential = necessary
- Form is absolutely essential to it.
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- They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Chpt 19essential = important
Definition:
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(essential) necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something