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Answer for the clue "By its very nature ", 11 letters:
essentially

Word definitions for essentially in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Essentially \Es*sen"tial*ly\, adv. In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES broadly/essentially correct (= correct in most ways, but possibly not all ) ▪ All the evidence suggests that the results of his research are essentially correct. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE different ▪ Genuine ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In an essential manner; in essence.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person" [syn: basically , fundamentally , in essence , au fond ]

Usage examples of essentially.

Was Aden really doing what I thought he was doing, essentially establishing me as the goto person for conducting archaeological research in Stone Harbor?

Nazi aggression was to remain essentially unchanged and to be used with staggering success until an aroused world much later woke up to it.

Taking 800 micrograms of folate a day in supplements, or 1,400 micrograms through your diet, can reduce homocysteine levels dramatically, essentially removing any excess homocysteine from your bloodstream and stopping its aging effects.

Our cognitive sciences are themselves suffering from an agnosia essentially similar to Dr P.

Paul returned to London while the idea was still fresh, though it was essentially an album filler.

Essentially the alchemical texts contained lessons in sex magic and chemistry at the same time.

For while Lutheranism stood essentially for passive obedience, and flourished nowhere save as a state church, Anabaptism was frankly revolutionary and often socialistic.

We hold moreover that they communicate their ideas in essentially the same manner as we do--that is to say, by the instrumentality of a code of symbols attached to certain states of mind and material objects, in the first instance arbitrarily, but so persistently, that the presentation of the symbol immediately carries with it the idea which it is intended to convey.

It is essentially an arsenide of iron, carrying a considerable quantity of tin.

It also occurs as arseniate in erythrine, and as oxide in asbolan or earthy cobalt, which is essentially a wad carrying cobalt.

Yet this problem, to your eyes, I fear, not essentially novel or peculiarly involute, holds for my contemplative faculties an extraordinary fascination, to wit: wherein does the mind, in itself a muscle, escape from the laws of the physical, and wherein and wherefore do the laws of the physical exercise so inexorable a jurisdiction over the processes of the mind, so that a disorder of the visual nerve actually distorts the asomatous and veils the pneumatoscopic?

The farmer understands that if he wishes to materially improve his cows, the first offspring must be begotten by a better, purer breed, and all that follow will be essentially benefited, even if not so well sired.

Even the flaring coral pink and incarnadine satins of the capes glistened with the lubricious tones of intimate feminine flesh and served to underscore the essentially lascivious nature of the frenzy that descended upon the tiered ranks of spectators.

Hence, since the ceorls doubtless formed the bulk of the population, it has been thought that the Anglo-Saxon armies of early times were essentially peasant forces.

To sum up, a duration and a percipient event are essentially involved in the general character of each observation of nature, and the percipient event is cogredient with the duration.