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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.
  1. 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
  2. In the commencement of these visits, there was some misunderstanding and consequent struggle between Will and Power.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Her state is probably to be attributed to the mental shock consequent on recovering her memory.”
    — from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. [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
  9. 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

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