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Quintessential   /kwˌɪntɪsˈɛnʃəl/  /kwˌɪntɪsˈɛntʃəl/   Listen
Quintessential

adjective
1.
Representing the perfect example of a class or quality.





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"Quintessential" Quotes from Famous Books



... supplying this need for representative men and women that the novelist can make his characters worth the while of every reader. But after he has made them quintessential of a class, he must be careful also to individualize them. Unless he endows them with certain personal traits that distinguish them from all other representatives or members of their class, whether actual or fictitious, he will fail to invest ...
— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton


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