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Definition
necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- Flour is so essential to cakes, you know.Chapter 16 — Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results (44% in)
essential = necessary or important
- In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged.Chapter 20 — A Good Imagination Gone Wrong (28% in)
essential = important
There are no more uses of "essential" in Anne Of Green Gables.
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