"unessential" meaning in English

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          "text": "1676, Joseph Glanvill, Seasonable Reflections and Discourses, London: R.W. [and] H. Mortlock, p. 92,\n[I] have a question more to ask you on occasion of what you have told me; and that is, Whether you are to leave every Minister and Church, as soon as any thing is said that is really erroneous, in the lesser and unessential matters?"
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          "text": "1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, No. 39, 4 May, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, p. 225,\n[He was] moved rather with Pity than Indignation towards the Persons of those, who differed from him in the unessential Parts of Christianity."
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          "text": "“[…] strangeness is not in the nature of a thing, but in its relation to something extrinsic—in this case an unessential observer.”",
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          "text": "But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.",
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          "text": "These [gates] past, if any pass, the void profound\nOf unessential Night receives him next\nWide gaping, and with utter loss of being\nThreatens him,",
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          "text": "[…] even before the Heavens, before those material Orbs, that now rowl over us, were call’d from the dark, and profound Abyss of unessential Nothing:",
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        "Void of essence, or real being."
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