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Webster 1913 Edition


Inconsequence

In-con′se-quence

,
Noun.
[L.
inconsequentia
: cf. F.
inconséquence
.]
The quality or state of being inconsequent; lack of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Strange, that you should not see the
inconsequence
of your own reasoning!
Bp. Hurd.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inconsequence

INCON'SEQUENCE

,
Noun.
[L. inconsequentia.]
Want of just inference; inconclusiveness.

Definition 2024


inconsequence

inconsequence

See also: inconséquence

English

Noun

inconsequence (countable and uncountable, plural inconsequences)

  1. The state or quality of being inconsequent.
    • 2013, Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude:
      There, through the door and out of her life, it all went—the Lieutenant, his Laundry, his inconsequence, his habit of drinking too much, his failings, his niceness, his kissings in the dark, her little “romance” and renewed interest in life because of him, all.

References

  • inconsequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913