Consequence

1. n. Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.
2. n. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
3. n. A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
4. n. Chain of causes and effects; consecution.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.