All 3 Uses of
consequence
in
The Awakening
- She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.†
Chpt 35 (definition 1)
- Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.†
Chpt 36 (definition 2) *
- And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.†
Chpt 38 (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