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Bedrock

noun

Solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil.

Principles from which other truths can be derived. Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals. "Let's get down to basics"

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"Bedrock" Quotes from Famous Books

... magnificent spectacle. Many clouds have rested on Mount Eryx since 1752 and we do not now expose our bedrock of paganism quite so openly. This, indeed, but for the slight veneer of Christianity, might have passed for ...

— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones

... standing up and shedding clothing in all directions, "and I rise to remark that we'd better undress as far as the law allows—perhaps farther. I never did like Osnomian ideas of comfortable warmth, but we can endure it by peeling down to bedrock——" ...

— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

... changed our resting-place and went out to camp under a rocky eminence. There with a bedrock of austere granite we slept in peace. At glimmer of dawn we were saddling up. We rode to another kraal, but the folk there ...

— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... above the bridge, the creek walls open in an ellipse, narrowing abruptly where the bridge spans them. This open space has been scoured by floods until the bedrock lies like a polished floor and it was now dry except where the piers of the bridge stood in stagnant pools. Once within this amphitheater whose vertical walls rise twenty to thirty feet, no fighting cover ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

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