Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of consummating; a fulfillment.
- n. An ultimate goal or end.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Accomplishment; completion; end; the fulfilment or conclusion of anything: as, the consummation of one's wishes, or of an enterprise.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
- n. The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
- n. The achievement of perfection.
- n. Termination; the end (as of the world or of life).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of bringing to completion or fruition
- n. the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse
Examples
“As a result, the urn pushes beyond the logic of consumer desire: where the consumer can at least hope for an imagined consummation from a given commodity, the urn makes that satisfaction impossible and emphasizes the paradoxical bliss one takes in an anticipation that is never fulfilled.”
“The consummation is when the seer looks up from earth into the unseen world, and has the future shown to him by angels, that is, apocalypse.”
“At the seventh, the consummation is fully attained (Re 11: 15).”
“The final consummation is the great theme of the Gospel announced to, and by, the prophets (compare Ga 3: 8).”
“Instead of the third woe being detailed, the grand consummation is summarily noticed, the thanksgiving of the twenty-four elders in heaven for the establishment of Christ's kingdom on earth, attended with the destruction of the destroyers of the earth.”
“* Till that blessed consummation is reached let all questions of minor importance be forgotten.”
“Assuming that that consummation is yet to be arrived at, which we are very far indeed from admitting, is it necessary that, like the Israelites, she must pass through a desert in order to become a nation?”
“Unhappily, we fear that such a consummation is still far distant.”
“Whenever that consummation is attained the root of bitterness will have perished from the land; and when a few years shall have passed, blunting the hatred which has been excited by this fratricidal strife, the Americans of both the Northern and Southern States will perceive that the selfish policy of other nations would not have so rejoiced over their division had it not seemed, to those who loved them not, the proof of past failure and the prophecy of future weakness.”
“And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘consummation’.
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, interstice, port, membrane, skin, crepuscule, dawn and 304 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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essigurken's Words
transubstantiation, pungent, omnipotent, craven, 'tis, saucy, entwine, inextricably, consummation, conglomeration, sepulchre, addendum and 264 more...
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English
vorciferous, vituperative, vitriolic, vitiation, vitiated, virulent, venerate, vanguard, viands, unimpeachable, unctuous, unanimity and 398 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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Other
brouhaha, pulchritude, laudanum, orotund, leviathan, inimical, ephemeral, quiescence, exhort, nemoral, inculcate, cacotopia and 125 more...
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Louises Wulf had its occult necessities, demanded now that the great consummation was close a small fee of purity, a little swept-clean antechamber before the hall of majestic filth. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 18, 2012