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Some of the regular visitors to this forum have experience of Christian homeschooling, and as a corollary are aware of the unfair, dishonest slurs that are uttered from some quarters about it and all Christian education.

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  1. noun A proposition that follows with little or no proof required from one already proven.
  2. noun A deduction or an inference.
  3. noun A natural consequence or effect; a result.
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  • But it is clear that for Browning himself the essence of Christianity lay at this time in something not very remote from what he revered as the essence of Shelleyism—a corollary, as it were, ultimately implicit in his thought. —  Robert Browning
  • But the corollary is also true: when supernatural fiction works, it's stunning, and beautiful, and hopefully terrifying. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • We in the news media seek various privileges - such as the right to protect confidential sources - and the corollary should be that we truly live up to our responsibility of informing the public. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • As a corollary, the survey revealed that the projects that are perceived as "not central to the business" have the greatest chance of being axed.
  • Various prominent Canadian Muslim women have recognized this corollary, which is why they are backing Ontario Justice Norris Weisman's recent decision to require the key witness in a Toronto sexual-assault case to testify uncovered. —  Gates of Vienna
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  1. Middle English corolarie, from Latin corōllārium, money paid for a garland, gratuity, from corōlla, small garland; see corolla.

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  1. from Middle English corolaric = French corollaire = Spanish corolario = Portuguese Italian corollario, from Late Latin corollarium, a corollary, additional inference, L. a gift, gratuity, money paid for a garland of flowers, properly neuter of *corollarius, pertaining to a garland, from corolla: see corolla.
 

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