inconsequent

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See also: inconséquent

English

Etymology

From Middle French inconséquent.

Adjective

inconsequent (comparative more inconsequent, superlative most inconsequent)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of inconsequential
  2. illogical; not following from the premises
    • 1903, Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle:
      She looked at him a minute, and it came to him as he met it an inconsequent sense that her eyes, when one got their full clearness, were still as beautiful as they had been in youth, only beautiful with a strange, cold light - a light that somehow was a part of the effect, if it wasn't rather a part of the cause, of the pale, hard sweetness of the season and the hour.
    • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:
      That possibility was now ever so much further from sight than on the eve of his arrival, and he perfectly felt that, should it come at all, it would have to be at best inconsequent and violent.

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