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Essential character

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(Biol.) the prominent characteristics which serve to distinguish one genus, species, etc., from another.

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Now the head, the hand, and such things are substances, and it is possible to know their essential character definitely, but it does not necessarily follow that we should know that to which they are related.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was for ever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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