All 8 Uses of
consequence
in
The American
- He would have been incapable of asking for it, for he had no perception of difficulties, and consequently no curiosity about remedies.
Chpt 3 *consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Her father went over with the French troops to help you in your battles in the last century, and she has always, in consequence, wanted greatly to see an American.†
Chpt 12
- Newman's familiarity was never importunate; his sense of human equality was not an aggressive taste or an aesthetic theory, but something as natural and organic as a physical appetite which had never been put on a scanty allowance and consequently was innocent of ungraceful eagerness.
Chpt 13consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- M. Nioche drained his pungent glass at a long draught, and looked out from eyes more lachrymose in consequence.†
Chpt 15
- But the cold-blooded little demon sticks in my thoughts; she has bitten me with those even little teeth of hers; I feel as if I might turn rabid and do something crazy in consequence.†
Chpt 15
- You are exclusive proprietor of this flourishing settlement, and are consequently fabulously rich, and you would be richer still if you didn't grant lands and houses free of rent to all newcomers who will pledge themselves never to smoke cigars.
Chpt 16consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- It is true, however, that though to accept an "opening" in an American mercantile house might be a bold, original, and in its consequences extremely agreeable thing to do, he did not quite see himself objectively doing it.†
Chpt 17
- He seemed morally to have turned a sort of somersault, and to find things looking differently in consequence.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)