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Definition of Inconsequently
1. Adverb. Lacking consequence. "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'"
Definition of Inconsequently
1. Adverb. In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence ¹
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Definition of Inconsequently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsequently
Literary usage of Inconsequently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"Still it is almost inconceivable how so delicate a lyrist could have written so
inconsequently about his own art. His treatise was answered by Samuel Daniel ..."
2. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"It would not matter, she thought, inconsequently. Doubly entrenched behind her
unawakened purity and the standards of her class, it did not occur to her to ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1874)
"... namely, the mind with its innate forms and functions, and the unknown and
unknowable "things-in-themselves," the latter had inconsequently had ascribed ..."
4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts (1867)
"... but if you are aware that you are asking inconsequently, you do not well."
Then Simon said : " I swear by the Supreme Divinity, whatsoever that may be, ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1874)
"... namely, the mind with its innate forms and functions, and the unknown and
unknowable " things-in-themselves," the latter had inconsequently had ascribed ..."
6. Today's Short Stories Analyzed: An Informal Encyclopedia of Short Story Art by Robert Wilson Neal (1918)
"raged Sally, and inconsequently burst out crying. 226. ... She is shaken, defeated,
and humiliated, but, unless " inconsequently burst out crying " be ..."
7. The Writings of Tatian and Theophilus: And, The Clementine Recognitions by Tatian, Theophilus, Benjamin Plummer Pratten (1867)
"... but if you are aware that you are asking inconsequently, you do not well."
Then Simon said: " I swear by the Supreme Divinity, whatsoever that may be, ..."
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