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in essence

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Definitions

  1. By nature

    By nature; inherently.

    • Indigenous people, such as agriculturists, hunters, and pastoralists initiated a system of totemism and tabooism which in essence was a natural law against killing and eating certain animals.
    • The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle.

  2. In most ways that matter

    In most ways that matter; in all ways that matter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in essence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA