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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consequently
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The book has no narrator or main character. Consequently, it lacks a traditional plot.
▪ There was no fighting and consequently no casualties.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both companies consequently emphasized providing leadership, developing subordinates, and maintaining long-term partnerships with clients.
▪ He consequently had to remain solely on his own surface, looking outward for sustenance.
▪ It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life.
▪ Less apparent on Mercedes' stand - and consequently ignored by most show visitors - was a prototype 190 electric car.
▪ The continents and other landmasses perch on top of the plates, and consequently likewise move relative to each other.
▪ The dispute be-came, consequently, the subject of a lawsuit.
▪ The grass in the centre was consequently beaten down and dry.
▪ Thoreau, consequently, moves toward the other end of the scale.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consequently

Consequently \Con"se*quent*ly\, adv. By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

Syn: See Accordingly.

Wiktionary
consequently

adv. 1 (context conjunctive English) As a result or consequence of something. 2 (context sequence obsolete English) subsequently, following after in time or sequence.

WordNet
consequently
  1. adv. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given; "consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor" [syn: accordingly]

  2. as a consequence; "he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held" [syn: therefore]

Usage examples of "consequently".

Consequently, it remains to be said, that, while the dimensions remain the same as before, there is a miraculous change wrought in the other accidents, such as shape, color, and the rest, so that flesh, or blood, or a child, is seen.

And consequently, as the accidents are preserved by Divine power when the substance is withdrawn, so, when matter is withdrawn, the qualities which go with matter, such as rarity and density, are preserved by Divine power.

Consequently, as the being of those accidents could be corrupted while the substance of the bread and wine was present, so likewise they can be corrupted now that the substance has passed away.

Consequently, like others, Adams could report comparatively little in his letters home, except that the hours were longer than ever, the issues of greater urgency, the strain worse on everybody.

The great difference, however, was that Jefferson was of the opposing party, with differing objectives and principles, and Adams consequently could never count on such loyalty from Jefferson as he had given Washington.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

Consequently, his relations to the wooers are newly exacerbated, particularly with Antinous, the most intimidating of the lot, who is only a little older than Telemachus but just old enough actually to remember Odysseus from his own childhood.

The cosmopolitan Antiochenes returned the compliment, regarding Romans as mere duffers in depravity, philistines in art, but capable in war and government, and consequently to be feared, if not respected.

He explained why well water is in winter warmer than a running stream, and this was his explanation: at the antipodes our winter is summer, consequently, the water of a well which comes through from the other side of the earth must be warm in winter and cold in summer, since in our summer it is winter there.

At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North.

Those of you who are familiar with the theory of astrogation are aware that space is changing constantly, due to the motions of the stars, and that consequently no two trips are exactly alike.

By others he is said to have been the son of Antiope, the daughter of Belus: consequently he must originally have been of Babylonish extraction.

Consequently, this is the mind-set that prompted in 1984 the active inclusion of forensic pathology in the criminal profiling activities of the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Consequently the Caesarians no longer mourned such as were perishing but counted them fortunate to escape from further torment, and in their hopelessness wished that they, too, were among those already dead, wounded were far more in number than those died, and being struck from a distance with stones and javelins and receiving no blow from near at hand their wounds were in many places, and not as a rule favorably located.

Consequently the parties whose duty it was to make preparations had fled from that respectable county and gone away towards Six Mile Bottom, just in one of the corners of Cambridgeshire, as if the intention was that the dons of the University should have a look in.