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Definition of Inconsequent
1. Adjective. Lacking worth or importance. "The quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"
Definition of Inconsequent
1. a. Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.
Definition of Inconsequent
1. Adjective. (archaic) (alternative form of inconsequential) ¹
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Definition of Inconsequent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsequent
Literary usage of Inconsequent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Moreover, the incident of the angel and the clairvoyant and speaking ass is out
of place and inconsequent. There was no occasion that Balaam should learn ..."
2. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains by Grove Karl Gilbert, Clarence Edward Dutton (1880)
"CONSEQUENT AND inconsequent DRAINAGE. If a series of sediments accumulated in an
ocean or lake be subjected to a system of displacements while still under ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"Although careful and accurate case-taking is of great value in the teaching of
practical medicine, yet a desire for and a prying into inconsequent ..."
4. The Church Cyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1883)
"... yet it would have been most apparently as aimless, as inconsequent, as those
who deny tho Resurrection are forced to admit our life to be. ..."
5. The Province of Reason: A Criticism of the Bampton Lecture on "The Limits of by John Young (1860)
"Admit Facts, refuse Arguments—Nature of Consciousness — Equivocal Limitation—Infinite,
Finite—Distinction, just and real—Confusion—inconsequent ..."
6. Pages from a Private Diary by Henry Charles Beeching (1899)
"inconsequent required no little imagination; and though Mrs. Bennet is not always
equal to herself —as which of us is ?—she never quite sinks to caricature. ..."
7. Nature in Downland by William Henry Hudson (1906)
"... their inconsequent behaviour—Magpie and domestic pigeon—Story of a pet
magpie—Blackberries on the downs—Elderberries— Fews at Kingly Bottom—A ..."
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