All 9 Uses

consequence
in
Pudd'nhead Wilson
(Edited)

In consequence Tom was a sickly child and Chambers wasn't.
Chpt 4

consequence = result
Judge Driscoll could be a freethinker and still hold his place in society because he was the person of most consequence to the community, and therefore could venture to go his own way and follow out his own notions.
Chpt 5 *

consequence = importance
The Widow Cooper—affectionately called "Aunt Patsy" by everybody—lived in a snug and comely cottage with her daughter Rowena, who was nineteen, romantic, amiable, and very pretty, but otherwise of no consequence.
Chpt 5
Rowena had a couple of young brothers—also of no consequence.
Chpt 5
Well, madam, the rest is not of much consequence.
Chpt 6
None of them had ever seen a person bearing a title of nobility before, and none had been expecting to see one now, consequently the title came upon them as a kind of pile-driving surprise and caught them unprepared.
Chpt 6 *

consequently = resultantly (as a result)
Although Driscoll was a freethinker and Howard a strong and determined Presbyterian, their warm intimacy suffered no impairment in consequence.
Chpt 12

consequence = result
Well, nothing of consequence.
Chpt 13

consequence = importance
Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Chpt 15

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."