Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being consequential or consecutive, as in discourse.
- noun Conceit; pompousness; pretentiousness; the assumption of dignity or importance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being consequential.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the quality or state of being
consequential
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Examples
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Those are the consequences of our consequentialness.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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For me that is self-evident and denotes the obvious contradiction between intentionality (as a teleological standpoint and its extrinsic finalities) and consequentialness (as the most important moral standpoint).
Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For the energies of this generation are exhausted; they were spent in the Revolution; for this generation is bled white and there is nothing left of it but a moaning, numbed, apathetic lump of sacrificial flesh … Those are the consequences of our consequentialness.
Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940
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