All 5 Uses of
essence
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- A field-man is a personality afield; a field-woman is a portion of the field; she had somehow lost her own margin, imbibed the essence of her surrounding, and assimilated herself with it.†
Chpt 2
- She was no longer the milkmaid, but a visionary essence of woman—a whole sex condensed into one typical form.†
Chpt 3 *
- He himself knew that, in reality, the confused beliefs which she held, apparently imbibed in childhood, were, if anything, Tractarian as to phraseology, and Pantheistic as to essence.†
Chpt 4
- The shovelfuls of loam, black as jet, brought there by the river when it was as wide as the whole valley, were an essence of soils, pounded champaigns of the past, steeped, refined, and subtilized to extraordinary richness, out of which came all the fertility of the mead, and of the cattle grazing there.†
Chpt 4
- But the essence of things had changed.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
the defining or most important quality of something
or:
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