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essentiality|ɪˌsɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity.]
1. The quality or fact of being essential.
1640Goodwin Justifying Faith i. i. (R.), The substantialness and essentiality of a promise relates to the actual execution of it. 1646J. Saltmarsh Some Drops ii. 32 The onenesse, Entirenesse, indivisibility and essentiality of the Truth. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. viii. (1879) 351 There are many upon whom the essentiality of Intellectual and Moral discipline will..impress itself.
2. Essential character or nature; essence.
1616R. C. Times' Whis. i. 122 The mistery Of searching his [God's] essentialitie. 1647Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. i. §4 (R.) This faith is perfected, as to the essentiality of it, in the death and resurrection of Christ. 1683J. Pordage Myst. Div. 79 Love's Eternal Essentiality is that out of which all pure simplified Spirits were brought forth. 1866Carlyle Edw. Irving Misc. (1881) I. 229 This ‘noble lady’ was in essentiality an artist.
3. An essential quality (rare); also pl. essential points or elements; essentials. Cf. essential B. 2.
1649J. Ellistone tr. Behmen's Epist. i. 9 This essentiality is called Sophia, being the essentiall wisedome, or the body of Christ. 1710Swift in Examiner No. 32 ⁋3 The French..whose essentialities are generally so very superficial. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 322 When priests..shall forget the solemn essentialities of their office. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. ix. iii. 425 In all the essentialities of it, there had not been..the least flaw. |