All 4 Uses

consequence
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. ... It's a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence.
p. 27.3 *

consequence = importance or significance
He laid claim to that moment and all its consequences, as if time itself had commenced the instant our station wagon left the road, and there was no history, no context, no agency of any kind until he began it, at the age of seventeen, by falling asleep at the wheel.
p. 39.8

consequences = undesired results
Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn't affect me, that he didn't affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn't understand how morbidly right I was. ... For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that it's not affecting me, that was its effect.
p. 111.9 *

consequences = effects
I arrived at the church full of anxious energy, as though I'd been sent through time from some disastrous future to this moment, when my actions still had weight and my thoughts, consequences.
p. 226.9

consequences = effects (results)

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."