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Definition of Inessentials
1. inessential [n] - See also: inessential
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inessentials
Literary usage of Inessentials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster Movement by St. John Greer Ervine (1916)
"They resemble each other in fundamentals; they differ from each other in inessentials.
The inessentials are of great importance, since they give colour and ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"... the great one of telling a straightforward story unimpeded by inessentials,
but their pictures of a sturdy and rugged people are vivid and unaffected. ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"... so far from being the political creed of an exclusive class, was inessentials
as truly ' democratic ' as that of the radicals, if not indeed more so. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"... 'feelings' and of the doctrines—diverse in form but alike inessentials— which
affirm that there are relational of 'thought'-elements in consciousness it ..."
5. Publications by Scottish History Society, Dorset Record Society (1907)
"Lyndwood, in the Provinciale, constantly cuts short the edifying introductions ;
our copyists omitted inessentials with an ' etc. etc. ..."
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