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Crucial

adjective

Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis. Synonym: important. "A crucial election" , "A crucial issue for women" Antonym: noncrucial.

Having crucial relevance. "Relevant testimony"

Of the greatest importance. Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence. "Crucial information" , "In chess cool nerves are of the essence"

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"Crucial" Quotes from Famous Books

... resumed, studying the enlargement carefully, "is likely to prove crucial. It's very queer. Collins says he didn't write it, and if he did he surely is a wonder at disguising his hand. I doubt if any one could disguise what the rayograph shows. Now, for instance, this ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... up to their full possibilities in unencumbered homes, and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us." And there at the passionate and crucial question, this essential and fundamental question, whether procreation is still to be a superstitious and often disastrous mystery, undertaken in fear and ignorance, reluctantly and under the sway of blind ...

— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

... tale as I heard it last time I played at Trent Bridge; it was never in the papers, I believe," said Raffles gravely. "You may remember the tremendous excitement over the Test Matches out in Australia at the time: it seems that the result of the crucial game was expected on the condemned man's last day on earth, and he couldn't rest until he knew it. We pulled it off, if you recollect, and he said it would make ...

— A Thief in the Night • E. W. Hornung

... what? You don't think she eloped with your Jap or stole the spoons, do you?" snapped Carson. He had been interrupted at the crucial point in a game of cribbage with Poker Face and the cattleman's weak spot was cribbage. He glared at ...

— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

... as dogma, and allow the history of dogma to be absorbed in a general history of the various conceptions of Christianity. Such a "liberal" view would not agree either with the teaching of history or with the actual situation of the Protestant Churches of the present day: for it is, above all, of crucial importance to perceive that it is a peculiar stage in the development of the human spirit which is described by dogma. On this stage, parallel with dogma and inwardly united with it, stands a definite psychology, metaphysic and natural philosophy, as well as a view of history ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

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