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)
- Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school.4 — Spring (93% in)
- If the conspiracy that the opening words announce is entered into by the reader, then the book can be seen to open with its close: a speculation on the disruption of "nature" as being a social disruption with tragic individual consequences in which the reader, as part of the population of the text, is implicated.6 — Afterword (79% in)
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2 —1 use as in:
of little consequence
Definition
importance or relevance
- Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme.4 — Spring (93% in)
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