noun
pl.- Heraldry a cross
- a difficult problem; puzzling thing
- the essential or deciding point
- [C-] a small S constellation near the celestial pole, containing the Coalsack; the Southern Cross; the Cross
Origin of crux
L, cross
noun
- An example of a crux is the most important beliefs of a religion.
- An example of a crux is a Rubik's cube.
The definition of crux is the central point of something, or is something that seems impossible to solve.
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noun
pl. crux·es, or cru·ces- The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
- A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.
- The most difficult portion of an ascent in rock climbing or mountaineering.
Origin of crux
Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum) torment (of interpreters) from Latin crux crossCrux
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Noun
(plural cruxes or cruces)
Origin
From Latin crux (“cross, wooden frame for execution”) (English cross), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).
Proper noun
Origin
Latin crux (“a cross”)
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Sentence Examples
- That is the crux of the matter.
- Thus in presence of the problem which is the crux of materialism, the origin of consciousness, he first propounds a gratuitous hypothesis that everything has mind, and then gives up the origin of conscious mind after all.
- The crux of the difficulty was the doctrine of the supernatural, the relation between revealed and natural religion.
- Here we come to the crux of Fichte's system, which is only partly cleared up in the Rechtslehre and Sittenlehre.
- These dates are given in the following memorial distich with a frank indifference to quantity and metre "Vult Crux, Lucia, Cinis, Charismata dia Quod det vota pia quarta sequens feria."
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