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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
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Can "of" mean "because of"?
I was asking because this particular sentence seem to say so:
It was of the essence of a right conviction of the divine nature, as with a right conviction of the human, that, based less on experience than intuition, it rose above the zones of weather.
http://www.online-literature.com/melville/confidence-man/13
HERMAN MELVILLE - CONFIDENCE MAN
It was of the essence of a right conviction of the divine nature, as with a right conviction of the human, that, based less on experience than intuition, it rose above the zones of weather.
http://www.online-literature.com/melville/confidence-man/13
HERMAN MELVILLE - CONFIDENCE MAN
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wholegrain It was of the essence of a right convictionsimilar to the expression, "It was in the nature of a right conviction" ?? - A.
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