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in·scape  (nskp)
n.
The essential, distinctive, and revelatory quality of a thing: "Here is the inscape, the epiphany, the moment of truth." (Madison Smartt Bell).
inscape [ˈɪnskeɪp]
n
(Philosophy) the essential inner nature of a person, an object, etc.
[from in-2 + -scape, as in landscape; coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89), British poet and Jesuit priest]
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Hopkins coined the terms inscape and instress to describe the overflowing presence of the divine within the temporal.
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1) The noted literary biographer Joseph Pearce has asserted that, in his emphasis on separateness and uniqueness, Tolkien reflects two other mostly forgotten elements of Catholic philosophy: the haecceitas of John Duns Scotus, and the inscape of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Pearce 113-115).
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