All 5 Uses of
essential
in
Babbitt
- You've been the rock of ages to me, all right, but you're essentially a simp.
Chpt 5 *essentially = in all important respects
- In fact you're so earnest about morality, old Georgie, that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Chpt 5essentially = basically (relating to the basic nature of something)
- I believe the highest type of Service, like the most progressive tenets of ethics, senses unceasingly and is motived by active adherence and loyalty to that which is the essential principle of Boosterism—Good Citizenship in all its factors and aspects.
Chpt 21essential = basic (relating to the basic nature of something)
- More than mountains or the shore-devouring sea, a city retains its character, imperturbable, cynical, holding behind apparent changes its essential purpose.
Chpt 26
- It's essentially and only a matter of Love, and of the practical application of the Christian religion!
Chpt 27essentially = basically (relating to the basic nature of something)
Definition:
necessary or important; or a basic and defining part of something