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Definition of Inconsequence

1. Noun. Having no important effects or influence.

Definition of Inconsequence

1. n. The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness.

Definition of Inconsequence

1. Noun. The state or quality of being inconsequent. ¹

2. Noun. Lacking just or logical inference or argument ¹

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Definition of Inconsequence

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsequence

Literary usage of Inconsequence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"EVERY illogical position being in its nature unstable, the very inconsequence of a religion obliges it to a perpetual evolution in the direction of an ..."

2. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"Lee's Retreat Across the Potomac an inconsequence.—Disappointment in Richmond.—The Budget of a Single Day in the Confederate Capital. ..."

3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"inconsequence of its uncultivated state, rats had multiplied in the fields in a most extraordinary manner, and wolves had become formidably numerous. ..."

4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The inconsequence of his arguing discovered. The doctrine by him opposed, mistaken, ignorantly or wilfully. Objections proposed by Mr. G. to himself to be ..."

5. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"The narrative given by Herodotus presents another difficulty in the inconsequence ascribed to Miltiades. The fact that this difficulty is eliminated by one ..."

6. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by John Owen (1896)
"There is, however, a peculiar inconsequence in the admonitions of the Titan's friends, in that they agree with him as to the injustice of those decrees to ..."

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