(n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
(n.) Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
(v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the quintessence of political violence in Mexico for decades, between the state and the leftist opposition.
(2) The idea that you can devolve it all is nuts.” Then there are the pubs, those quintessences of British culture that also have the ability to give space and identity to a city’s multiple communities.
(3) Unlike Nabokov, Kafka could certainly discern music and respond to it, but just as he found it hard to assent to "the quintessence of life", so he found it impossible to believe wholeheartedly in its expression.
(4) In his journals, he wrote that his aim was to render "the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh".
(5) On his return to California, he continued to use his camera as a means to express "the very substance and the quintessence of the thing itself", photographing in close-up what he saw around him: an egg-slicer, a toadstool, a cup, a gnarled tree.
(6) It is subtitled Something Out of Nothing, a title that says much about how his ever-restless imagination had found yet another way of seeing, and one that perhaps surprised even himself in its rendering of "the very substance and quintessence" of that extraordinary landscape.
(7) One: rural reform in a country where land, land rights and ownership of land are the quintessence of politics and power.
(8) Humiliated rage and furtive envy characterise Muslim insurrectionaries and Hindu fanatics today as much as they did the militarist Japanese insisting on their unique spiritual quintessence.
(9) Sacks goes on to quote Schopenhauer approvingly: "Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves."
Quintessential
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
(2) Comprehending the nature of this property which couples ionic fluxions into mentality is the quintessential problem of science.
(3) Hussain’s concerns and desires are of course quintessentially British – as Swiss Miss hot cocoa may be American and good galettes Belgian.
(4) Even Eltham-born Bob Hope, the quintessential wise-cracking American star , used to recount that he had made his way over to the US by boat at five years of age because, “I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in England.” • This article was amended on 7 July 2015 to update the headline.
(5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
(6) But like other American exports, the chain would soon become a quintessentially British institution, with a presence on almost every high street and a unique place in the hearts of the nation's shoppers.
(7) We will be bringing a quintessentially British department store with western brands,” said Oddy.
(8) The Premier League's chief executive, Richard Scudamore , has insisted it remains "quintessentially English" despite an influx of foreign players, managers and owners over the past two decades.
(9) At Maní, this quintessential Brazilian fruit comes in the form of a fuchsia-coloured cold soup with a prawn steamed in cachaça.
(10) If all wars ultimately find their own Homer, this brutal, piercing, sometimes darkly funny collection stakes Klay’s claim for consideration as the quintessential storyteller of America’s Iraq conflict,” the judges wrote of the book.
(11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
(12) They know that his prominence would screw a tight lid on the pot of potential leave support because Farage is the quintessential Marmite politician: repellent to those that do not find him delectable.
(13) Waitrose is pledging to expand the current range of 200 "quintessentially British products" to around 500, and will pay a fixed percentage royalty to Duchy Originals on all wholesale and retail purchases.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
(15) It will be a scene as quintessentially Big Apple as Broadway, yellow cabs and the Statue of Liberty.
(16) It's a quintessentially childlike sensibility, and one we could all use a bit more of.
(17) This song, for me, is quintessential Lou Reed, and is up there with the very best rock 'n' roll songs ever recorded."
(18) Scudamore recently asserted that the overseas billionaires who have bought the top clubs are attracted to a game that is still "quintessentially English".
(19) He seemed so quintessentially New Labour – a Catholic comprehensive schoolboy from Merseyside who read English at Cambridge, worked as a parliamentary adviser and was elected in 2010.
(20) Whether its trajectory follows theirs, or that of nearby Frisco, the quintessential Dallas exurb, hangs in the balance.