Literary notes about Consequent (AI summary)
In literature, "consequent" is typically deployed as an adjective that highlights the natural or logical outcome following a preceding event, condition, or decision. Authors use it to link cause and effect, as when the entrance of a Judge creates a calming ripple in the courtroom ([1]) or when a misunderstanding leads to ensuing struggles ([2]). It appears across diverse genres—from historical narratives noting events following treaties or wars ([3], [4]) to reflective passages that connect personal emotions with the unfolding of fate ([5], [6], [7]). In philosophical and logical writings, the term underscores the inevitable result that flows from specific premises or conditions ([8], [9]). Thus, "consequent" serves as a precise marker of causality, efficiently bridging actions or circumstances with their effects throughout literary discourse.
- The entrance of the Judge, and a consequent great stir and settling down in the court, stopped the dialogue.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - In the commencement of these visits, there was some misunderstanding and consequent struggle between Will and Power.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - Wash burn also mentions the emigration to Texas consequent upon the treaty of 1828 (Reminiscences, p. 217, 1869).
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - Course of Events from the Peace of Paris to 1778.—Maritime War Consequent upon the American Revolution.—Sea Battle off Ushant.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan - Her state is probably to be attributed to the mental shock consequent on recovering her memory.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude—that was what he had figured as the Beast in the Jungle, that was what had been in the lap of the gods.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James - [pg 147] said, the relation of the consequent to the reason, and nothing more.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Accordingly the consequences of the theory were only such as were consequent upon the lack of an experimental method.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey