consequent
Speech parts
1. consequent - Noun
2. consequent - Adjective
3. consequent - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.