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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

... you," observed Tommy Bouldon, drawing himself up to his full height of three feet seven inches, and looking very consequential. "I hate those home-bred, missy, milk-and-water chaps. It is a pity they should ever come to school at all. They are more fit to be turned into nursery-maids, and to look after their little brothers ...

— Ernest Bracebridge - School Days • William H. G. Kingston

... again, doctor, you see," said Jones, in his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various

... when he said good-night, and she had felt his moist and pudgy hand squeeze hers; but she knew it was the eyes and hand of the widow-woman, the owner, but for Ishmael, of Cloom Manor, with which the lawyer had dallied. Her sense of her position was flattered and a glimpse of a yet more consequential one flashed before her, but no thrill went with it. It was in the grip of what she would have thought a very different emotion that she had gone up to her room. For Tonkin had told her of a noted revivalist who was coming through West Penwith, and already she felt the first delicious tremblings ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... beau monde a part potential: I 've seen them balance even the scale with fighters, Especially when young, for that 's essential. Why do their sketches fail them as inditers Of what they deem themselves most consequential, The real portrait of the highest tribe? 'T is that, in fact, ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... "No man can stand such flattery as that without deteriorating, I warn you. I shall become consequential, and pompous, and altogether insupportable, and then you will leave me and never realize that it ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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