But it doesn't change the essential nature of the project.

Some may argue that we are a mirror image of God's essential nature.

This refers to the essential nature of a thing or person.

It is not a knowledge of things, but a direct insight into their essential nature.

So God creates woman, a new being, yet sharing man's own essential nature.

But the law could do nothing to change the essential nature of Congress.

The original essential nature of an Other could not be changed.

The "essential nature" of things does sometimes change, and this is reflected in the language.

Finally, there has been no change in America's essential nature.

Nor were the circumstances of the day's business less strange than its essential nature.