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adjective

Consequential adj.

Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent. "All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed... because it is of divine authority." "These kind of arguments... are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose."

Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4. "His stately and consequential pace."

Consequential damage (Law)

(a)

Damage so remote as not to be actionable

(b)

Damage which although remote is actionable.

(c)

Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.

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Etymology of 'Consequential'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Consequential" Quotes from Famous Books

... its own purposes, as they are under the necessity of a price system which is competitive. The schools as well as industry use up the placticity of youth; they kill off the eagerness of children to explore and plan, and cast it aside for more consequential ends. ...

— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot

... authour not systematick and consequential, but desultory and vagrant, abounding in casual allusions and light hints, is not to be expected from any single scholiast. All personal reflections, when names are suppressed, must be in a few years irrecoverably obliterated; and customs, too minute to attract ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... are yet to be gratified with the sight of it, may imagine he has drawn some little upon "Fancy's sketch." There is nothing of pretension in its outward form, it indicates but moderately the comfort that presides within, inasmuch as will be found congregated all the agremens pertaining to more consequential habitations. Considerable tact is conspicuous everywhere; but none more unequivocally displayed than in the lightsome little Dining Room, contrasted with the gloomy, yet superior grace of the Library, into which ...

— The "Ladies of Llangollen" • John Hicklin

... letter (the only one of the creed I met with in prison). He was a quiet old man, and for upwards of three years had been allowed certain trifling privileges on account of his religious opinions,—one of them was his being allowed to sit when grace was said before meals. One day, a young consequential officer happened to be on duty in the ward where the Quaker was domiciled, and when he called "Attention!" for grace, the Quaker, as usual, kept his seat. The officer ordered him to stand up, and the Quaker having attempted to ...

— Six Years in the Prisons of England • A Merchant - Anonymous

... Gamelin, her cockade now and henceforth fastened more carefully in her hood, had from one day to the next assumed a fine, consequential air, a Republican haughtiness and the dignified carriage suitable to the mother of a juror ...

— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France

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