consequently
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Etymology
From Middle English consequentely, consequentliche, consequently; equivalent to consequent + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
consequently (not comparable)
- (conjunctive) As a result or consequence of something; subsequently.
- He didn't wake up early. Consequently, he was late to work.
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
- 1904, Carlo Bourlet, translated by Harold Bolingbroke Mudie, The Esperantist, volume 1, number 8, page 116:
- While algebraical reasoning is most frequently analytical, arithmetical reasoning is generally synthetical, and, consequently, more difficult to understand.
- (sequence, obsolete) subsequently, following after in time or sequence.
Related terms
Translations
as a result or consequence
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subsequently — see subsequently
References
- “consequently”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “consequently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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