Crux Definition

krŭks, kro͝oks
cruces, cruxes
noun
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A cross.
Webster's New World
A difficult problem; puzzling thing.
Webster's New World
The essential or deciding point.
Webster's New World
A small S constellation near the celestial pole, containing the Coalsack; the Southern Cross; the Cross.
Webster's New World

The basic, central, or essential point or feature.

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(astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.

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Other Word Forms of Crux

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Singular:
crux
Plural:
cruces, cruxes

Origin of Crux

  • From Latin crux (“cross, wooden frame for execution”) (English cross), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum) torment (of interpreters) from Latin crux cross

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin crux (“a cross”)

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Crux 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.

  • This is a real crux in the gospel of John.

  • Here we come to the crux of Fichte's system, which is only partly cleared up in the Rechtslehre and Sittenlehre.

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