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Quintessence

Pronounced quin-TESS-ence

The quintessence is the pure or most perfect essence of anything. As a noun, or as the adjective quintessential, it can be employed either to draw attention to a perfect example of something, or indicate a higher value.

Examples

Sir Timothy Blentham was the quintessence of the English country gentleman: charming, slightly scattered and endlessly patient with his inferiors, of whom there were many.

The music of Bach is the quintessential expression of the baroque period and, by comparison, reveals Vivaldi's little ditties as the elevator music they really are.

Pay attention: this next single sentence reveals the quintessence of our mission.

Cool History

In the mediaeval practice of alchemy, beyond the four elements or essences (air, earth, fire and water), a fifth essence or quintessence was presumed to be the substance of which heavenly bodies were composed, and to be actually latent in all things. The extraction of this most sublime essence was one of the great objects of alchemy.

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