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essentialness|ɪˈsɛnʃəlnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or fact of being essential.
1640Ld. Digby Sp. conc. Trien. Parl. 12 The Essentialnes Sir of frequent Parliaments to the happinesse of this King⁓dome. a1699Bonnell in W. Hamilton Life ii. (1703) 175 Each endeavouring..to pretend them to be of more Essentialness and Weight in Religion, than indeed they are. 1736in Bailey. 1854Ruskin Lect. Archit. Add. 120 A confusion of the idea of essentialness..with the idea of nobleness. |