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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consequential
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
loss
▪ There must of course be no consequential loss of quality.
▪ Industry sources say consequential loss claims could prove a greater burden than the building repair costs.
▪ Please not that you are not covered for consequential loss under this service.
▪ For an extra fee, at the time of posting at your post office, we can arrange cover against consequential loss.
▪ It is backed by a £15 million insurance warranty covering product liability on defective material, damage to property and consequential losses.
▪ You are not covered for consequential loss.
▪ Free consequential loss cover from £100-£10,000.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consequential effects of the policies
▪ The NSC has taken an active and consequential role in providing guidance.
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▪ As this is a form of trespass the injury must be direct rather than consequential.
▪ I will consider in chambers what consequential and other directions and orders I should make.
▪ Industry sources say consequential loss claims could prove a greater burden than the building repair costs.
▪ Later sections will cast further and more consequential doubt on the adequacy of the inductivist stance on observation.
▪ Neither Jerusalem nor any other consequential issue will be discussed Sunday.
▪ The consequential shock he suffered all but paralysed him.
▪ There are consequential amendments to SSAPs 1, 4, 8, 12, 15, 19 and 24.
▪ There must of course be no consequential loss of quality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consequential

Consequential \Con`se*quen"tial\, a.

  1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.

    All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority.
    --Locke.

    These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4. His stately and consequential pace. --Sir W. Scott. Consequential damage (Law)

    1. Damage so remote as not to be actionable

    2. Damage which although remote is actionable.

    3. Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consequential

1620s, from consequent (Latin consequentia) + -al (1). Meaning "pregnant with consequences, important" is recorded from 1728. Related: Consequentially (c.1600).

Wiktionary
consequential

a. 1 following as a result 2 having significant consequences; of importance 3 something which is important or significant 4 someone who is self-important

WordNet
consequential

adj. having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision" [syn: eventful]

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Usage examples of "consequential".

If the country dog shows fite jest notis the consequential dignity with which the town dog retires.

Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of consequential damages, so the above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you may have other legal rights.

This appeared to Mr. Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good philosophy, always supposing the drone to be willing to be on good terms with the bee, which, so far as he knew, the easy fellow always was, if the consequential creature would only let him, and not be so conceited about his honey!

But in mythic societies, the nihilating offense is much more consequential, because an insult to the state is also an insult to God, and thus anything from excommunication to burning at the stake will be required for cultural therapia.

Her fees were exorbitant and her manner too consequential, but her creations were worth any price and her services desperatelb' in demand.

More than enough remained, however, to make life miserable with their coarse impudence, their petty tyranny, their ridiculously consequential airs.

Dismissing the observed proximate beings as a negligible distraction to be briskly dealt with, that which had sluggishly begun to stir moved on to more consequential activities.

And they edged into a little nook of the lobby, where they had a few minutes' confidential talk, during which the major looked grave and consequential, and carried his head high, nodding now and then with military decision.

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However in the light of the statements made by his learned friend, Mr Fescue, the defence were prepared to apologize and make financial reparation for the damage done to the plaintiff and his wife and for the scorn, ridicule and consequential loss of his profession .

He could explain the Home Rule issue and tell her what the odds were for a Liberal victory at the next election, even after Gladstone's failure to rescue Gordon from Khartoum and his consequential loss of popularity.

Time and again on this trip I had seen news stories that would elsewhere have been treated as colossal tragedies-a dozen people killed by floods in the South, ten crushed when a store roof collapsed in Texas, twenty-two dead in a snowstorm in the East-and each of them treated as a brief and not terribly consequential diversion between ads for hemorrhoid unguents and cottage cheese.

In all her consequential enumerations of the persons likely to leave their cards at Stanyon he could not recall ever to have heard her utter the name of Bolderwood.

As each retort became gruffer, and its consequential rebuttal more to the point, she felt Janet tremble.