All 4 Uses of
essential
in
Heart of Darkness
- The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling.
Chpt 2 *essentials = important characteristics
- The others had an alert, naturally interested expression; but their faces were essentially quiet, even those of the one or two who grinned as they hauled at the chain.
Chpt 2essentially = basically (relating to the basic nature of something)
- The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings.
Chpt 3essential = basic (relating to the basic nature of something)
- Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician.
Chpt 3essentially = 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