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Consequence   /kˈɑnsəkwəns/   Listen
Consequence

noun
1.
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.  Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot.  "His decision had depressing consequences for business" , "He acted very wise after the event"
2.
The outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual.  Synonym: aftermath.
3.
Having important effects or influence.  Synonyms: import, moment.  "Virtue is of more moment than security" , "That result is of no consequence"  Antonym: inconsequence.






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"Consequence" Quotes from Famous Books



... had your letter, Miss Danvers, and I remained at home in consequence. Won't you sit down? What a beautiful day ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade

... seeing it had lost its shell, and he shrunk from putting her in the power of the shoemaker again. It cost him much trouble to fix on the place that was least unsuitable. First he put it into the well of the clock-case, but instantly bethought him what the awful consequence would be if one of the weights should fall from the gradual decay of its cord. He had heard of such a thing happening. Then he would put it into his own place of dreams and meditations. But what if Betty should take ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

... both the action of the organ of sense in consequence of the impact of external objects, and our attention to that action; that is, it expresses both the motion of the organ of sense, or idea, and the pain or pleasure that succeeds ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... ladies, that you will continue to keep John Coachman waiting; that you will continue to give the most satisfactory reasons for keeping him waiting: and as for (9), you will show that you once (on the 1st of April last, let us say,) came to breakfast first, and that you are ALWAYS first in consequence. ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray

... oases," continued Seguin; "and where water can be used to irrigate the soil, luxuriant vegetation is the consequence. You have observed this, no doubt, in travelling down the river; and such was the case in the old Spanish settlements ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid


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