essence

How to use essence in a sentence

Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

But the West is not in its essence a time problem; there, they can wait—next week—next month.

No more admirable illustration can be found of the truth that the essence of defence lies in a vigorous local offence.

Walter Fetherston was a writer of breathless mystery—but he was the essence of mystery himself.

This intention is indeed so necessary that it does not belong to the qualities or attributes of prayer, but to its very essence.

This being a condition insisted upon by our divine Lord Himself, it also belongs to the essence of prayer.

Each poet has this power more or less developed, which is the very essence of his art.

Having done this, add a quarter of an ounce of essence of lemon; half-a-drachm of musk, and half-a-drachm of oil of thyme.

The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

He formed them partly of His own essence, capable of perfection or imperfection, according to their will.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985