QUINTESSENCE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for QUINTESSENCE, such as:
1. There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society.
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Meanings and Examples of QUINTESSENCE
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quintessence
n. the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
n. the most typical example or representative of a type
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1 In these times of strictest economy, it would perhaps be interesting to go deeper into the ways of those untiring thrifty ants who seem to know how "To cut a centime in four" and extract the quintessence from a bone.