All 50 Uses of
consequence
in
Middlemarch
- She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)consequences = results
- The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent: and with such a nature struggling in the bands of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither, the outcome was sure to strike others as at once exaggeration and inconsistency.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)consequent = following as a result
- Some slipped a little downward, some got higher footing: people denied aspirates, gained wealth, and fastidious gentlemen stood for boroughs; some were caught in political currents, some in ecclesiastical, and perhaps found themselves surprisingly grouped in consequence; while a few personages or families that stood with rocky firmness amid all this fluctuation, were slowly presenting new aspects in spite of solidity, and altering with the double change of self and beholder.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- For who of any consequence in Middlemarch was not connected or at least acquainted with the Vincys?
Chpt 1 (definition 2)consequence = importance
- "Beauty is of very little consequence in reality," said Rosamond, turning her head towards Mary, but with eyes swerving towards the new view of her neck in the glass.
Chpt 1 (definition 2) *
- He saw no way of eluding Featherstone's stupid demand without incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)consequences = results
- In consequence of what he had heard from Fred, Mr. Vincy determined to speak with Mr. Bulstrode in his private room at the Bank at half-past one, when he was usually free from other callers.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequence = result
- You are now reaping the consequences.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequences = results
- It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- It was not in Mr. Bulstrode's nature to comply directly in consequence of uncomfortable suggestions.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequence = result
- The notion of murder was absurd: no motive was discoverable, the young couple being understood to dote on each other; and it was not unprecedented that an accidental slip of the foot should have brought these grave consequences.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequences = results
- I only wanted to tell you that if you vote for your arsenic-man, you are not to cut me in consequence.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequence = result
- "You are excited, my dear… And I also am feeling some unpleasant consequences of too much mental disturbance," said Mr. Casaubon.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequences = results
- Even if he had applied to his father on the plea that Mr. Garth should be saved from loss, Fred felt smartingly that his father would angrily refuse to rescue Mr. Garth from the consequence of what he would call encouraging extravagance and deceit.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)consequence = result
- Adoring her husband's virtues, she had very early made up her mind to his incapacity of minding his own interests, and had met the consequences cheerfully.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)consequences = results
- She looked straight before her and took no notice of Fred, all the consequences at home becoming present to her.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Mr. Vincy, who had been keeping up a sharp fire on the enemy Infection, and was a good deal heated in consequence, started up when he heard Wrench come in, and went into the hall to let him know what he thought.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)consequence = result
- But this turned out badly: the next day, Rosamond looked down, and the consequence was that when their eyes met again, both were more conscious than before.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- These were heavy impressions to struggle against, and brought that melancholy embitterment which is the consequence of all excessive claim: even his religious faith wavered with his wavering trust in his own authorship, and the consolations of the Christian hope in immortality seemed to lean on the immortality of the still unwritten Key to all Mythologies.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- There had been no clashing of temper between Dorothea and her husband since that little explosion in Rome, which had left such strong traces in her mind that it had been easier ever since to quell emotion than to incur the consequence of venting it.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Still a mother has anxieties, and some young men would take to a bad life in consequence.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- "The town's talk is of very little consequence, I think," said Rosamond, inwardly gratified.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)consequence = importance
- Another stranger had been brought to settle in the neighborhood of Middlemarch, but in the case of Mr. Rigg Featherstone there was more discontent with immediate visible consequences than speculation as to the effect which his presence might have in the future.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)consequences = results
- …to observe that—since there never was a true story which could not be told in parables, where you might put a monkey for a margrave, and vice versa—whatever has been or is to be narrated by me about low people, may be ennobled by being considered a parable; so that if any bad habits and ugly consequences are brought into view, the reader may have the relief of regarding them as not more than figuratively ungenteel, and may feel himself virtually in company with persons of some style.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- As to Lydgate himself, having been accepted, he was prepared to accept all the consequences which he believed himself to foresee with perfect clearness.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- If is face was not turned towards her, and this made it easier to say— "But my opinion is of little consequence on such a subject."
Chpt 4 (definition 2)consequence = importance
- But if one has too much in consequence of others being wronged, it seems to me that the divine voice which tells us to set that wrong right must be obeyed.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)consequence = result
- Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)consequent = following as a result
- "The fact is," said Sir James, "if a man goes into public life he must be prepared for the consequences."
Chpt 4 (definition 1)consequences = results
- If you put him a-horseback on politics, I warn you of the consequences.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- One of the professional calls made by Lydgate soon after his return from his wedding-journey was to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a letter which had requested him to fix a time for his visit.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)consequence = result
- But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Mr. Wrench, generally abstemious, often drank wine rather freely at a party, getting the more irritable in consequence.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)consequences = results
- True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions—does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)consequence = result
- He had not been very well that morning, suffering from some difficulty in breathing, and had not preached in consequence; she was not surprised, therefore, that he was nearly silent at luncheon, still less that he made no allusion to Will Ladislaw.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- "That is of no consequence," said Dorothea, breaking in impetuously.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)consequence = importance
- Of course that is of no consequence in one way—you never would marry Mr. Ladislaw; but that only makes it worse of Mr. Casaubon.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- I can only tell you about myself, that I have always been too lax, and have been uneasy in consequence.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)consequence = result
- Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)consequences = results
- Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the consequences, and one who does it twice over deserves her fate.
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *
- "We war on'y for a bit o' foon," said Hiram, who was beginning to see consequences.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- I cannot tell what might have been the consequences if he had not distinctly promised himself that he would go to Lowick to see Mary and tell her that he was engaged to work under her father.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- She answered, wanting to check unintended consequences— "I spoke from inference only."
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- But she hesitated to beg that he would keep entire silence on a subject which she had herself unnecessarily mentioned, not being used to stoop in that way; and while she was hesitating there was already a rush of unintended consequences under the apple-tree where the tea-things stood.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- The satisfaction was enough for the time to melt away some disappointment in the conditions of marriage with a medical man even of good birth: it seemed now that her marriage was visibly as well as ideally floating her above the Middlemarch level, and the future looked bright with letters and visits to and from Quallingham, and vague advancement in consequence for Tertius.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)consequence = importance
- Rosamond went out the first time without telling her husband, and came back before his return; but the ride had been so thorough a success, and she declared herself so much the better in consequence, that he was informed of it with full reliance on his consent that she should go riding again.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)consequence = result
- Opinions may be divided as to his wisdom in making this present: some may think that it was a graceful attention to be expected from a man like Lydgate, and that the fault of any troublesome consequences lay in the pinched narrowness of provincial life at that time, which offered no conveniences for professional people whose fortune was not proportioned to their tastes; also, in Lydgate's ridiculous fastidiousness about asking his friends for money.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)consequences = results
- Having been roused to discern consequences which he had never been in the habit of tracing, he was preparing to act on this discernment with some of the rigor (by no means all) that he would have applied in pursuing experiment.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
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(2) (consequence as in: of little consequence) importance or relevance