All 7 Uses of
consequence
in
Frankenstein
- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
Chpt 1consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper—Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver.
Chpt 3consequences = results
- A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
Chpt 14consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.
Chpt 17 *consequences = results (things that follow from it)
- I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clearly.
Chpt 20consequences = results
- I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing with several persons in the island I had inhabited about the time that the body had been found, I was perfectly tranquil as to the consequences of the affair.
Chpt 21
- He had heard my story with that half kind of belief that is given to a tale of spirits and supernatural events; but when he was called upon to act officially in consequence, the whole tide of his incredulity returned.
Chpt 23consequence = as a result
Definition:
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(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)