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consequence🔊

An effect; something that follows a cause as a result.

An unwanted or unpleasant effect.

Consecution; chain of causes and effects.

Conclusion, deduction or inference; the thing concluded.

Importance, influence, or significance.

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Thus young Pen, the only son of an estated country gentleman, with a good allowance, and a gentlemanlike bearing and person, looked to be a lad of much more consequence than he was really; and was held by the Oxbridge authorities, tradesmen, and undergraduates, as quite a young buck and member of the aristocracy.

To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehavior.

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