The Only Use of
ramifications
in
The Great Gatsby
- The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.†
p. 99.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(ramifications) consequences or effects of an action -- often ones that are complex or unintended
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, ramification can reference the act of branching out; or part or all of branching parts.