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consequent

/ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwənt/ adjective C1
  1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. · His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
  2. Of or pertaining to consequences.
  3. Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on.
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Anne’s consequent humiliation was less than it might have been, however, in view of the concert and the spare-room bed.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 147 · C1
They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 55 · B2
Marilla had something to tell Anne, but she did not tell it just then for she knew if she did Anne’s consequent excitement would lift her clear out of the region of such material matters as appetite or dinner.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 140 · C1
d’Avrigny to superintend all the arrangements consequent upon a death in a large city, more especially a death under such suspicious circumstances.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1019 · C1

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