Definition of consequence

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Consequence (n.) Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.

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Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences..
Annex :: Annex (v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt..
Interested :: Interested (v. t.) Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness..
Regulus :: Regulus (n.) A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
Answer :: Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action..
Nyctalopia :: Nyctalopia (n.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness..
Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
Ex Postfacto :: Ex postfacto () From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective..
Inconsequent :: Inconsequent (a.) Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.
Karma :: Karma (n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.
Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
To :: To (prep.) Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state..
Ecbasis :: Ecbasis (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
Kenogenesis :: Kenogenesis (n.) Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis..
Idiopathical :: Idiopathical (a.) Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic..
Consequentially :: Consequentially (adv.) By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially..
Tautology :: Tautology (n.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison..
Anthracite :: Anthracite (n.) A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal..
Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right..
Dependent :: Dependent (n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.
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