All 28 Uses
consequence
in
A Passage to India
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- When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence.†
Chpt 2consequence = result
- It was difficult to get away, because until they had had their dinner she would not begin hers, and consequently prolonged her remarks in case they should suppose she was impatient.
Chpt 2consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Windows were barred, lest the servants should see their mem-sahibs acting, and the heat was consequently immense.
Chpt 3 *
- The young people glanced at each other and smiled; it amused them when the old lady got these gentle creeps, and harmony was restored between them consequently.
Chpt 3
- He made pleasant remarks and a few jokes, which were applauded lustily, but he knew something to the discredit of nearly every one of his guests, and was consequently perfunctory.
Chpt 5
- Accustomed to the privacy of London, she could not realize that India, seemingly so mysterious, contains none, and that consequently the conventions have greater force.
Chpt 5
- His attitude towards her remained entirely straightforward in consequence.†
Chpt 7consequence = result
- He assented, and they became engaged to be married in consequence.†
Chpt 8
- Neither had foreseen such a consequence.†
Chpt 8
- However big a badmash one is— if one's happy in consequence, that is some justification.†
Chpt 9
- Consequently he spent the previous night at the station.
Chpt 13consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- For owing to the sage leisureliness of Ronny and Adela, they could not be married till May, and consequently Mrs. Moore could not return to England immediately after the wedding, which was what she had hoped to do.
Chpt 14
- And Mohammed Latif was likewise content, because two of the guests had missed the train, and consequently he could ride on the howdah instead of following in a cart, and the servants were content because an elephant increased their self-esteem, and they tumbled out the luggage into the dust with shouts and bangs, issuing orders to one another, and convulsed with goodwill.
Chpt 14
- But, you see, Fielding, as I've said to you once before, you're a schoolmaster, and consequently you come across these people at their best.
Chpt 18
- I am informed that an evil action was performed in the Marabar Hills, and that a highly esteemed English lady is now seriously ill in consequence.†
Chpt 19consequence = result
- And consequently the echo flourished, raging up and down like a nerve in the faculty of her hearing, and the noise in the cave, so unimportant intellectually, was prolonged over the surface of her life.
Chpt 22consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Adela inclined towards tears in consequence of this unkind remark, and Ronny picked up the list of steamship sailings with an excellent notion in his head.†
Chpt 22consequence = result
- If I do break down, it is of no consequence.†
Chpt 24 *consequence = importance
- The Sweepers had just struck, and half the commodes of Chandrapore remained desolate in consequence-only half, and Sweepers from the District, who felt less strongly about the innocence of Dr. Aziz, would arrive in the afternoon, and break the strike, but why should the grotesque incident occur?†
Chpt 24consequence = result
- She is not here, and consequently she can say nothing.
Chpt 24consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Another local consequence of the trial was a HinduMoslem entente.†
Chpt 30consequence = result
- In a friendship such as ours a few slips are of no consequence.†
Chpt 31consequence = importance
- Consequently there are two shrines to him today—that of the Head above, and that of the Body below—and they are worshipped by the few Mohammedans who live near, and by Hindus also.
Chpt 35consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- "I do not expect I shall make myself cheap," said the Nawab Bahadur to Mr. Ram Chand, speaking very pleasantly, for he was aware that the man had been impolite and he desired to shield him from the consequences.†
Chpt 4
- Life went on as usual, but had no consequences, that is to say, sounds did not echo or thoughts develop.†
Chpt 14
- The case might go up from court to court, with consequences that no official could foresee.†
Chpt 24
- Also, he had a new-born respect for her, consequent on their talk.†
Chpt 26
- Accept the consequences of your own actions like a man.†
Chpt 30
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
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(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."