Definition for
consequence
noun – Connection of cause and effect, or of antecedent and consequent; consecution.
noun – That which follows from or grows out of any act, cause, proceeding, or series of actions; an event or effect produced by some preceeding influence, action, act, or cause; a consequent; a result.
noun – The conclusion of a syllogism.
noun – A consequent inference; deduction; specifically, in logic, a form of inference or aspect under which any inference may be regarded, having but one premise, the antecedent, and one conclusion, the consequent, the principle according to which the consequent follows from the antecedent being, like the whole inference, termed the consequence.
noun – Importance; moment; significance: applied to things: as, this is a matter of consequence, or of some, little, great, or no consequence.
noun – Importance; influence; distinction; note: applied to persons: as, a man of consequence.
noun – plural A game in which one player writes down an adjective, the second the name of a man, the third an adjective, the fourth the name of a woman, the fifth what he said, the sixth what she said, the seventh the consequence, etc., etc., no one seeing what the others have written. After all have written, the paper is read.
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