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adjective
Quintessential  adj.  Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic. "Quintessential extract of mediocrity."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Quintessential" Quotes from Famous Books



... is working herself up to a grey squall in her detestation of imagerial epigrams. Otherwise Gower Woodseer's dash at the quintessential young man of wealth would prompt to the carrying of it further, and telling how the tethered flutterer above a 'devil on his back on a river' was beginning to pull if not drag ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the other hand, gives us with truly wonderful accuracy and vigour "the very form and pressure of the time." The pages which describe him read like a quintessential distillation of the Florentine story of the time and of the human results which it had availed to produce. The character of Savonarola, of course, remains, and must remain, a problem, despite all that has been done for the elucidation of it since ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... occupied with practical realities to follow the thought of the age through all its divagations and into all its recesses, these Massachusetts business men had had to consider methods of access more quintessential and nuclear. And they had decided not to hunt out the best thought in its merely germinating stages, but to wait until it had emerged and flowered to some trustworthy recognition, and then, rather than toil through recondite ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells



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