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a direct consequence of
Definition
a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
- The disasters consequent on his secession first led to the necessity of other means of protection.Footnotes (57% in)
- If, however, the Homeric ballads, as they are sometimes called, which related the wrath of Achilles, with all its direful consequences, were so far superior to the rest of the poetic cycle, as to admit no rivalry,—it is still surprising, that throughout the whole poem the callida junctura should never betray the workmanship of an Athenian hand, and that the national spirit of a race, who have at a later period not inaptly been compared to our self admiring neighbours, the French,...Introduction (56% in)
- to be the causes of his fame, which were in reality the consequences of his merit.Preface (60% in)
- Having left his native country, Argos, in consequence of the accidental murder of Liscymnius, he was commanded by an oracle to retire to Rhodes.Footnotes (48% in)
There are no more uses of "consequence" flagged with this meaning in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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- Respecting him, my soul abjures the offence; And as the crime, I dread the consequence.Book 24 (54% in)
There are no more uses of "consequence" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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