Wesenn.
/ˈveɪzən/ rare.
a. A person's nature (as shown in characteristic behaviour).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]
heartOE
erda1000
moodOE
i-mindOE
i-cundeOE
costc1175
lundc1175
evena1200
kinda1225
custc1275
couragec1300
the manner ofc1300
qualityc1300
talentc1330
attemperancec1374
complexionc1386
dispositiona1387
propertyc1390
naturea1393
assay1393
inclinationa1398
gentlenessa1400
proprietya1400
habitudec1400
makingc1400
conditionc1405
habitc1405
conceitc1425
affecta1460
ingeny1477
engine1488
stomach?1510
mind?a1513
ingine1533
affection1534
vein1536
humour?1563
natural1564
facultyc1565
concept1566
frame1567
temperature1583
geniusa1586
bent1587
constitution1589
composition1597
character1600
tune1600
qualification1602
infusion1604
spirits1604
dispose1609
selfness1611
disposure1613
composurea1616
racea1616
tempera1616
crasisc1616
directiona1639
grain1641
turn1647
complexure1648
genie1653
make1674
personality1710
tonea1751
bearing1795
liver1800
make-up1821
temperament1821
naturalness1850
selfhood1854
Wesen1854
naturel1856
sit1857
fibre1864
character structure1873
mentality1895
mindset1909
psyche1910
where it's (he's, she's) at1967
1854–5 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. vi. 353 Fräulein Solmar is..probably between fifty and sixty, but of that agreeable Wesen which is so free from anything startling in person or manner.
1884 Mrs. H. Ward Miss Bretherton i. 10 And then her Wesen is so attractive; she is such a frank, unspoilt, good-hearted creature.
b. The distinctive nature or essence of anything.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
roota1325
substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
sum and substance1572
alloy1594
soul1598
inwardness1605
quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
1959 Listener 22 Oct. 689/2 I believe myself that it is only in the totality of its historic manifestations that Christianity can be understood, and that so long as it does survive, its Wesen, its nature, will continue to reveal new potentialities.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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n.1854- for the greatest part
- for the heart of one
- for the hell of it
- for the high jump
- for the honour
- for the hundred
- for the intent
- for the intent that
- for the jump
- for the jumps
- for the lack of a nail
- for the land's sake
- for the last
- for the life of me
- for the long haul
- for the look of the thing
- for the lord's sake
- for the lord's sakes
- for the love of
- for the love of god
- for the love of mike
- for the love of pete
- for the main
- for the manner
- for the mastery