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non-eˈssential, a. and n.
[non- 3.]
A. adj. Not essential (in various senses).
1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 71 He answered her in the non-essential modes. He talked of friendship [etc.]. 1846Mill Logic i. vi. §4 Non-essential or accidental Propositions, on the contrary, may be called Real Propositions in opposition to Verbal. 1866Littledale Incense 9 The..abandonment..of a non-essential, though primitive, custom. 1875Poste Gaius i. Introd. 18 The error is held to be non-essential and does not avoid the disposition. 1883Black Shandon Bells xxxii, I say that he is careless about what is non-essential.
B. n. A thing that is not essential, absolutely necessary, or of the utmost consequence.
1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. III. 16, I..only dissented from my amiable Rebecca in what she termed non-essentials. 1833Tracts for Times No. 3. 3 Shall not we pass from non-essentials to essentials? a1857R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Rem. (1858) I. 51 He [sc. Schleiermacher] made manifest..the distinctions between essentials and non-essentials in religion. 1900Daily News 7 May 6/6 In essentials Unity, in non-essentials Liberty, in all things Charity. |