Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON'SE-QUENT
CON'SE-QUENT, n.
- Effect; that which follows a cause. They were ill governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. – Davies.
- That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion or inference.
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