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gist

n.

substance, essence, significance; see basis 1, summary.

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Another word for gist

noun

The most central and material part:

core, essence, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, root¹, soul, spirit, stuff, substance. (Law) gravamen. See be

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This must have been the gist of the special revelation.
They sent a copy of their old creed to Babken, and it closely resembles the Adoptianist creed of Archelaus, the gist of which was that Jesus, until his thirtieth year, was a man mortal like other men; then, because he was righteous above all others, he was promoted to the honour and name of Son of God.
Hart in The Jewish Quarterly Review for July 1907, the gist of which is that Jesus commends the Pharisees for insisting that when a man has vowed a vow to God he should pay it even though his parents should suffer.
C. i.); but the gist of his speech was the need of Jerusalem.
This company in 1750 sent Christopher Gist down the Ohio river to explore the country as far as the mouth of the Scioto river; and four years later the erection of a fort was begun in its interest at the forks of the Ohio.

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