All 7 Uses

consequence
in
All the Pretty Horses
(Edited)

In an ideal world the gossip of the idle would be of no consequence.
Chpt 2 *

consequence = importance
But I have seen the consequences in the real world and they can be very grave indeed.
Chpt 2 *

consequences = results
They can be consequences of a gravity not excluding bloodshed.
Chpt 2
In the end it was all of no consequence of course.
Chpt 2

consequence = importance
As if the complexities of this piece of business dragged after it every sort of consequence.
Chpt 3

consequence = result
He claimed that the responsibility for a decision could never be abandoned to a blind agency but could only be relegated to human decisions more and more remote from their consequences.
Chpt 4

consequences = results
To a boy this would have been an event of consequence.
Chpt 4

consequence = importance

Definitions:

(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."