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consummate

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1. consummate - Adjective

2. consummate - Verb

4. consummate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. Ernest Hemingway

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. Horace Mann

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. Betty Buckley

The encroachments upon liberty in the reigns of the first James and the first Charles, by turning the general attention of learned men to government, are said to have produced the greatest number of consummate statesmen which has ever been seen in any age or nation. John Adams

Wilde was not a great poet nor a consummate prose writer. He was a very astute Irishman who encompassed in epigrams an esthetic credo which others before him scattered in the space of long pages. He was an enfant terrible. Jorge Luis Borges

Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages. Randolph Sinks Foster

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