All 3 Uses of
consequence
in
MS. Found in a Bottle
- The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
*consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- The shock of the descending mass struck her, consequently, in that portion of her frame which was already under water, and the inevitable result was to hurl me, with irresistible violence, upon the rigging of the stranger.
- I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age.†
Definition:
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(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)