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Definition
the defining or most important quality of something
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a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste
- Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.Episode 9 — Scylla And Charybdis (4% in)
- It's the very essence of Wilde, don't you know.Episode 9 — Scylla And Charybdis (44% in)
- Tame essence of Wilde.Episode 9 — Scylla And Charybdis (44% in)
- —You're the essence of vulgarity, she in gliding said.Episode 11 — Sirens (28% in)
- The air without is impregnated with raindew moisture, life essence celestial, glistening on Dublin stone there under starshiny coelum.Episode 14 — Oxen Of The Sun (88% in)
- The air is perfumed with essences.Episode 15 — Circe (30% in)
There are no more uses of "essence" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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