- a consummating or being consummated; completion; fulfillment
- an end; conclusion; outcome
Origin of consummation
Middle English consummacioun from Old French consumation from Classical Latin consummatio
noun
The definition of consummation is the act of fulfilling or ending something.
An example of consummation is the final signing of an agreement.
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noun
- The act of consummating; a fulfillment.
- An ultimate goal or end.
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Noun
(plural consummations)
- The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
- The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
- The achievement of perfection.
- Termination; the end (as of the world or of life).
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Sentence Examples
- The fall of Jajce was the consummation of theTurkish conquest.
- To this consummation, with its necessary accompaniment in the extinction of prophecy, the book of Haggai already points.
- Other problems connected with his family interests served to complicate the situation and eventually to prevent the successful consummation of many of his plans.
- An alliance, on fairly equal terms, between the three powers, would, in these circumstances, be the consummation of Griffenfeldt's "system"; an alliance with France to the exclusion of Sweden would be the next best policy; but an alliance between France and Sweden, without the admission of Denmark, was to be avoided at all hazards.
- This is the consummation towards which events had been steadily moving - not at first consciously, for it was some time before the tendencies at work were consciously realized - but ending at last in the complete equation of Old Testament and New, and in the bracketing together of both as the first and second volumes of a single Bible.
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