All 4 Uses of
essential
in
Pride and Prejudice
- "—for I dare not hope," he continued in a lower and more serious tone, "that he is improved in essentials."
p. 226.0essentials = things that are necessary
- In essentials, I believe, he is very much what he ever was.
p. 226.1 *essentials = the most important ways
- If there were anyone that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence.
p. 280.8essential = important
- The letter shall certainly be burnt, if you believe it essential to the preservation of my regard; but, though we have both reason to think my opinions not entirely unalterable, they are not, I hope, quite so easily changed as that implies.
p. 348.5essential = necessary
Definition:
necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something