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consummation Definition

con·sum·ma·tion (kän′sə mās̸hən)

noun

  1. a consummating or being consummated; completion; fulfillment
  2. an end; conclusion; outcome

Etymology: ME consummacioun < OFr consumation < L consummatio

consummation Synonyms

consummation

n.

consummation Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • enlightenment: Against him, America is not the fulfillment of history, the consummation of enlightenment or something that will last forever.
  • marriage: There is also the very private consummation of the marriage on that first wedding night.
  • age: He awaits the consummation of the age, for God has willed that " they without us should not be made perfect.
  • thing: A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things.
  • history: The story of Scripture starts with a man who initiates history and ends with the marriage of the bride as the consummation of history.
  • process: Nevertheless Paul adheres to physical resurrection as the consummation of the process ( I Cor.

Converse of object

  • attain: Verily there was no formula by which the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment.
  • await: He awaits the consummation of the age, for God has willed that " they without us should not be made perfect.
  • reach: This later period is opened by Descartes and Galileo, and reaches consummation in the work of Newton.
  • represent: Stalin and his faction personified the bureaucracy, and their victory represented the consummation of the bureaucracy's transformation into an elite.

Adjective modifier

  • final: He was present when the universe was unfolded and will be around at its final consummation.
  • great: Has a Flight Finders retractable place a great final consummation of the apollon built.
  • eschatological: The Lord's Supper narratives instead look forward to the eschatological consummation in the coming kingdom of God ( cf.
  • glorious: Their hearts are set, as they were in life, on the glorious consummation begun before they were slain.
  • happy: There are three big obstacles, however, to this happy consummation.
  • perfect: Only in eternity will love give a perfect consummation to our knowledge.
consummation Quotes

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens