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Synonyms for quintessential


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kwin-tuh-sen-shuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌkwɪn təˈsɛn ʃəl



Définition of quintessential

Origin :
  • c.1600, "purest, most refined," from quintessence (Medieval Latin quint essentia) + -al (1). Related: Quintessentially.
  • adj model
Example sentences :
  • Where the notion of doing so is simply ludicrous, you have quintessential poetry.
  • Extract from : « Poetry for Poetry's Sake » by A. C. Bradley
  • A quintessential drop of intellect is apt to be in poetic blood.
  • Extract from : « The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke » by Rupert Brooke
  • You were sixteen then, and the effect as you came into the room was quintessential.
  • Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain
  • But after he has made them quintessential of a class, he must be careful also to individualize them.
  • Extract from : « Materials and Methods of Fiction » by Clayton Hamilton
  • Then turning after a moment's silence to the girl, "What says our Quintessential Stone to this?"
  • Extract from : « The Long Night » by Stanley Weyman
  • His life is the ideal of “subjectivity”—the quintessential essence of selfishness.
  • Extract from : « Village Life in China » by Arthur H. Smith
  • He is too much like a woman, without being a woman; and between the two characters, he misses the quintessential delicacy of both.
  • Extract from : « Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 of 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • No town in the universe can be duller; because, from its quintessential dulness, there is but one step to total inanition.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 » by Various
  • And consider the freezing isolation of a body of our quintessential elect, seeing below them none to resemble them!
  • Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith
  • He extracts the finest flavors and quintessential principles from flesh and vegetables.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 » by Various

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