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Sequent   /sˈikwənt/   Listen
Sequent

adjective
1.
In regular succession without gaps.  Synonyms: consecutive, sequential, serial, successive.
2.
Following or accompanying as a consequence.  Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant.  "Snags incidental to the changeover in management" , "Attendant circumstances" , "The period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness" , "The ensuant response to his appeal" , "The resultant savings were considerable"



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"Sequent" Quotes from Famous Books



... simplicity, unpretending vigor of work, which claims no admiration either for minuteness or dexterity, and suggests no idea of effort at all; refusal of extraneous ornament, and perfectly arranged disposition of counted masses in a sequent order, whether in the beads, or the ringlets of hair; this is all you have to be pleased with; neither will you ever find, in the best Greek Art, more. You might at first suppose that the chain of beads round the cap was an extraneous ornament; but I have little doubt that it is as definitely the ...
— Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture - Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Sequent" :   ordered, concomitant


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