rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.]
† 1. The state or quality of being consequential (in senses 1–4). Obs.
1681. Burthogge, An Argument (1684), 18. Which Duty and Incumbence, and the Consequentialness of it from the Covenant is [etc.].
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Consequentialness, the following by way of consequence, or the being of consequence.
1755. Johnson, Consequentialness, regular consecution of discourse. [Similarly in later Dicts.]
2. Important or self-important quality or personality; = CONSEQUENTIALITY 2.
1828. Southey, Ep. to A. Cunningham. Let Her pamper’d lap-dog … snap and growl, With petulant consequentialness elate.
1883. B. Gould, J. Herring, I. 183. What does your consequentialness desire?
