crux

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And the crux isn't whether Jesus WENT to hell, but whether or not satan and the demons TORTURED Him there.

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  1. noun The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
  2. noun A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.

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  • It's a long, very amusing (really) story, but the crux is that I successfully dissembled in order to get away with being badly prepared. —  Arts & Ecology blog
  • The crux is that whoever owns the debt can call it in and CPO goes down the tubes. —  Chelsea Blog
  • Sandwiched in the middle of this, as I said, overlong dissection, is what I see as the crux of the matter. —  Refugee Resettlement Watch
  • The crux (pun intended) is that if anyone believes but worries that they might not be accepted because they aren't one of the elect, you can tell them that everyone who believes is most certainly one of the elect. —  The Boar's Head Tavern
  • And some of that goes into things like simple scar-crux vs scar-o-scope and completely scripted performances by SS and DD to cover up that they actually have already pretty much won the war. —  HogwartsProfessor.com
 

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  1. Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum), torment (of interpreters), from Latin crux, cross.

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  1. Latin, a cross: see cross, n.
 

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