Definition of In essence

1. Adverb. With regard to fundamentals although not concerning details. "In principle, we agree"

Exact synonyms: In Principle, In Theory

Definition of In essence

1. Adverb. Essentially. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of In Essence

in dies
in disagreement(p)
in dishabille
in dispute(p)
in disrepair(p)
in droves
in due course
in due season
in due time
in earnest
in earnest(p)
in effect
in effect(p)
in effigy
in esse
in essence (current term)
in everyone's thoughts
in evidence
in exchange
in existence
in extenso
in extremis
in face of
in fact
in fashion
in favor of
in fee
in fetters(p)
in fine
in fine fettle

Literary usage of In essence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"and since this being is regarded as ethical in essence, the conception of holiness is that of ethical purity. When, then, in Amos iv. ..."

2. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy by Benjamin Rand (1908)
"The terms in ESSENCE* are always mere pairs of correlatives, and not yet absolutely reflected in themselves: hence in essence the actual unity of the notion ..."

3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"his old age differs from Socrates in his youth, being the same man and differing only in accidents, not in essence. Socrates should be Plato, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... a delegated one,—that they were acting аз the substitutes of the apostle, and that their duties'were in essence identical with those of the episcopate. ..."

5. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"in essence, Consciousness is limited to the Phenomenal—I am conscious of mind in action, in and through its attributes or phenomena ; but not of mind in ..."

6. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1881)
"We can conceive three and even more persons, identical in essence. Thus we men are distinguished from one another by personal differences, but in the main, ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"and since this being is regarded as ethical in essence, the conception of holiness is that of ethical purity. When, then, in Amos iv. ..."

8. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy by Benjamin Rand (1908)
"The terms in ESSENCE* are always mere pairs of correlatives, and not yet absolutely reflected in themselves: hence in essence the actual unity of the notion ..."

9. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"his old age differs from Socrates in his youth, being the same man and differing only in accidents, not in essence. Socrates should be Plato, ..."

10. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... a delegated one,—that they were acting аз the substitutes of the apostle, and that their duties'were in essence identical with those of the episcopate. ..."

11. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"in essence, Consciousness is limited to the Phenomenal—I am conscious of mind in action, in and through its attributes or phenomena ; but not of mind in ..."

12. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1881)
"We can conceive three and even more persons, identical in essence. Thus we men are distinguished from one another by personal differences, but in the main, ..."

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