consummation

The concept of an election’s “consummation,” though, appears nowhere in federal statute, and therefore cannot distinguish early voting from late-arriving ballots.

And he positively wallowed in violence, in near-pornographic fashion: “The whole earth, continually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.”

Or any of the intimate details of the consummation of his lurid act.

More than half of states still have marriage consummation laws that require sex to in some way prove the authenticity of a partnership.

“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death,” Maistre writes.