Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

* Landor

The laws are at present, both in form and essence , the greatest curse that society labours under.

* Addison

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].

* Courthorpe

The essence of Addison's humour is irony.

(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.

Constituent substance.

* Milton

Uncompounded is their essence pure.

A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.

* Milton

As far as gods and heavenly essences / Can perish.

* Washington Irving

He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences , until he had an ideal world of his own around him.

A significant feature of something.

The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.

* essence of Jojoba

Fragrance, a perfume.

* Alexander Pope

Nor let the essences exhale.

Noun

(en noun)

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))

The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.

# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.

# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.

# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.

# (label) One of the objects in a set.

A small part of the whole.

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Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.

A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.

The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.

A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.

A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.

(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.

* 2011 , Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies

The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.