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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

In both Methods it is really the isolation of the connexion between antecedent and sequent that constitutes the proof.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

As, perhaps, appropriate sequent to our fanciful views, we next present something which was not born in our own brain, and which may or may not be statement of ancient facts.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

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

And so also we are blameworthy or praiseworthy for doing or not doing external actions, so far only as these actions are naturally connected with volitions, as sequents with their stated antecedents.

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

As the volition itself appears by an absolute necessity in relation to the individual man, so also do the stated sequents or effects of volition appear by an absolute necessity in relation to him.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

The sequents of volitions are changes or modifications, in external nature, or in parts of the being external to the will; but the volitions are modifications of the will itself.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

The human volition is but the divine, manifested through a lengthened it may be, but a connected and necessary chain of antecedents and sequents.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan




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