All 4 Uses
essence
in
Nature, by Emerson
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- The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear, omnipotent to its own ends, and is directly related, there amid essences and billets-doux, to Himalaya mountain-chains[509] and the axis of the globe.†
- The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.†
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- That power which does not respect quantity, which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel, delegates its smile to the morning, and distills its essence into every drop of rain.†
- It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence, until after a long time.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(essence) the defining or most important quality of something
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)