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sequent

[see-kwuhnt] / ˈsi kwənt /




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Bellow's sub sequent novel, Henderson the Rain King, rambled even more; and in Herzog the tension has snapped completely in a flood of good will.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there is no indication that sub sequent crops on the same land are affected by the chemical dousing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

Then if I storm, what word breaks sequent stillness?

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

When a volition of individual will takes place, without the sequent aimed at, because a greater force is opposed to it, then the sequent of this greater force is necessary with a particular relative necessity.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

Hence volitions are necessary; and, to carry out the reasoning, it must be added likewise that the connexion between volitions and their sequents is equally necessary.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

When the greater force is greater than all supposable will, then its sequents take place by a general relative necessity.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

The connexion between volition and its sequents, is just as wonderful and inexplicable, as the connexion between will and its volitions.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

It is by the sequents of this nisus,—the effects produced in the external visible world, that he reveals himself to others.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

Relative necessity is relative to the will in the connexion between volition and its sequents.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan




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