consequently vs subsequently
Definitions
adverb
- as a consequence
- (sentence connectors) because of the reason given
Examples
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Consequently it puts a great deal of onus to get points at home.
Consequently many penalties are cleared just before the finish.
Definitions
adverb
- happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
Examples
Animals are humanized, that is, the kinship between animal and human life is still keenly felt, and this reminds us of those early animistic interpretations of nature which subsequently led to doctrines of metempsychosis.
These works have subsequently become the most widely performed and appreciated in the Boyce repertoire.
She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by.
