2 meanings, 3 uses
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1 —2 uses as in:
a direct consequence of
Definition
a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
- And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.Chapter 38 (37% in)
- 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.Chapter 35 (59% in)
There are no more uses of "consequence" flagged with this meaning in The Awakening.
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2 —1 use as in:
of little consequence
Definition
importance or relevance
- Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.Chapter 36 (95% in)
There are no more uses of "consequence" flagged with this meaning in The Awakening.
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