All 34 Uses

consequence
in
Emma, by Jane Austen
(Edited)

She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period.
Chpt 1.1-2

consequence = result
The Woodhouses were first in consequence there.†
Chpt 1.1-2
It would have grieved me to lose your acquaintance, which must have been the consequence of your marrying Mr. Martin.
Chpt 1.7-8
...for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
Chpt 1.7-8

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable, and happy for ever; but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs. Goddard's all the rest of her life—or, at least, (for Harriet Smith is a girl who will marry somebody or other,) till she grow desperate, and is glad to catch at the old writing-master's son.
Chpt 1.7-8

consequence = importance
Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want: I believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband's house as I am of Hartfield; and never, never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
Chpt 1.9-10
…vacation since their marriage had been divided between Hartfield and Donwell ...but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children, and it was therefore many months since they had been seen in a regular way by their Surry connexions, or seen at all by Mr. Woodhouse, who could not be induced to get so far as London, even for poor Isabella's sake; and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in forestalling this too short visit.
Chpt 1.11-12

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
I hope he will be here to-morrow, for I have a question or two to ask him about myself of some consequence.
Chpt 1.11-12 *

consequence = importance
there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to South End.
Chpt 1.11-12 *

consequences = results (things that will happen because)
Weather becomes absolutely of no consequence.
Chpt 1.13-14

consequence = importance
Quite seasonable; and extremely fortunate we may think ourselves that it did not begin yesterday, and prevent this day's party, which it might very possibly have done, for Mr. Woodhouse would hardly have ventured had there been much snow on the ground; but now it is of no consequence.
Chpt 1.13-14
But I know they will, because it is a family that a certain lady, of some consequence, at Enscombe, has a particular dislike to: and though it is thought necessary to invite them once in two or three years, they always are put off when it comes to the point.
Chpt 1.13-14
The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it; but he must know that in fortune and consequence she was greatly his superior.
Chpt 1.15-16
...but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence;
Chpt 1.15-16
Had she been a person of consequence herself, he would have come I dare say;
Chpt 1.17-18
Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath, was to be seen under the operation of being lifted into the butcher's cart, which was to convey it to where the coaches past; and every thing in this world, excepting that trunk and the direction, was consequently a blank.
Chpt 2.5-6

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
She was received with a cordial respect which could not but please, and given all the consequence she could wish for.
Chpt 2.7-8

consequence = importance
And though the consequent shock and alarm was very great and much more durable—indeed I believe it was half an hour before any of us were comfortable again—yet that was too general a sensation for any thing of peculiar anxiety to be observable.
Chpt 2.7-8

consequent = following as a result
See the consequence of keeping you company!†
Chpt 2.7-8

consequence = result
It would be a great disappointment to Mr. John Knightley; consequently to Isabella.
Chpt 2.7-8

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
"They told me something," said Harriet rather hesitatingly; "but it is nothing of any consequence."
Chpt 2.9-10

consequence = importance
Do you imagine it to be the consequence of an immediate commission from him, or that he may have sent only a general direction, an order indefinite as to time, to depend upon contingencies and conveniences?
Chpt 2.9-10

consequence = result
Mr. Knightley, one moment more; something of consequence—so shocked!
Chpt 2.9-10

consequence = importance
She had a little beauty and a little accomplishment, but so little judgment that she thought herself coming with superior knowledge of the world, to enliven and improve a country neighbourhood; and conceived Miss Hawkins to have held such a place in society as Mrs. Elton's consequence only could surpass.
Chpt 2.15-16
"No," cried Mr. Knightley, "that need not be the consequence."
Chpt 2.17-18

consequence = result
Where I sit is of no consequence.
Chpt 3.1-2

consequence = importance
It seemed as if every thing united to promise the most interesting consequences.
Chpt 3.3-4

consequences = results
Miss Bates would hardly give Emma time to say how perfectly new this circumstance was to her; but as without supposing it possible that she could be ignorant of any of the particulars of Mr. Frank Churchill's going, she proceeded to give them all, it was of no consequence.
Chpt 3.7-8

consequence = importance
They must take the consequence, if they have heard each other spoken of in a way not perfectly agreeable!
Chpt 3.9-10

consequence = result
Who had been at pains to give Harriet notions of self-consequence but herself?
Chpt 3.11-12

consequence = importance
Wish it she must, for his sake—be the consequence nothing to herself, but his remaining single all his life.
Chpt 3.11-12

consequence = result
"...he was extremely anxious to shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it; or if it were, that it would be of any consequence; for 'such things,' he observed, 'always got about.'"
Chpt 3.11-12
'The consequence,' said she, 'has been a state of perpetual suffering to me; and so it ought.'
Chpt 3.11-12
"One natural consequence of the evil she had involved herself in," she said, "was that of making her unreasonable."
Chpt 3.11-12

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(1) (consequence as in: a direct consequence of)
a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
(2) (consequence as in: of little consequence)
importance or relevance
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In classic literature, consequential may refer to someone with too much feeling of self-importance as when Dickens wrote "Because he's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-up-nosed peacock."

Self-consequence was used in a similar manner, but is more easily understood by modern readers since important is one of the modern senses of consequence.

Another classic sense of consequent that is similar to importance or significance refers to "material wealth or prominence" as when Jane Austen wrote: "They had each had money, but their marriages had made a material difference in their degree of consequence."

consequence in Emma, by Jane Austen (Edited)

consequence
in
Emma, by Jane Austen
(Edited)