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consequence
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Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.
Chpt 1.2 *

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.†
Chpt 1.3

consequence = result
Why does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.†
Chpt 1.5

consequence = importance
That handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years was violently developed at last.†
Chpt 1.6

consequence = result
Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still coldly and sadly:— "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, I was furious, and I informed against you."†
Chpt 1.6
The counsel for the defence had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent man.†
Chpt 1.8
Javert knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence.†
Chpt 1.8
In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting.†
Chpt 2.1
Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence.†
Chpt 2.2
A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon.†
Chpt 2.2
Her eye was black in consequence of a blow from Madame Thenardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!†
Chpt 2.3
In consequence of demolitions and reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by.†
Chpt 2.5
These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like the Bernardine monks, but to Citeaux, like the Benedictine monks.†
Chpt 2.6
It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the education of girls.†
Chpt 2.6
This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his father.†
Chpt 3.3
By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his grandfather.†
Chpt 3.3
He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, and, consequently, nothing was lost.
Chpt 3.3

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
The elder girl was removing the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the while:— "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, you will anger your father."†
Chpt 3.8 *

consequence = importance
He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he heard voices talking very close by.†
Chpt 3.8

consequence = result
He reflected that had he not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and his daughter with him, no doubt.
Chpt 3.8

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.
Chpt 4.1
It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne yard than in close confinement.†
Chpt 4.2

consequence = result
Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, and consequently, without interference.
Chpt 4.3

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
The municipal information collected at that time had even reached the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the townhall.
Chpt 4.3
Jean Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of Cosette's silence.†
Chpt 4.3

consequence = result
It was written in the most charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days.
Chpt 4.5

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more.†
Chpt 4.7

consequence = result
Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now rarely went out with Cosette.†
Chpt 4.9
For our parts, we reject this word uprisings as too large, and consequently as too convenient.
Chpt 4.10

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
In short, what cause is more just, and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, and places the human race…
Chpt 4.13
She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, that was sufficient and that Marius would come.
Chpt 5.1
This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of 1832.†
Chpt 5.1

consequence = result
But a humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, indicated respiration, and consequently, life.
Chpt 5.3

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous.
Chpt 5.3
The extent of some of the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy.
Chpt 5.5
In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community of life been established between this celestial little creature and that old criminal?†
Chpt 5.7

consequence = result
The suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small for Castelcicala.
Chpt 5.9

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
"Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear."†
Chpt 1.7
THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN.†
Chpt 3.3
This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly distinct from Brujon's programme.†
Chpt 4.2
This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it entered the belly of the elephant through the crack.†
Chpt 4.6
The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both more and less than life.†
Chpt 5.1
And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, 1789; these soldiers are priests.†
Chpt 5.1
In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius?†
Chpt 5.7

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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."

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