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Etymology
Etymology tree English quintessential Middle English -ly English -ly English quintessentially From quintessential + -ly.
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(not-comparable) In a manner that is typical or characteristic of a thing's nature.
Peri handed Ptolemy his helmet. It had a crest on it, which she always thought looked quintessentially Roman.
1994, Christopher Bulis, “ch XXIII”, in State of Change, page 237:The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: