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  • noun Plural form of consummation.

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Examples

  • And with him and with these consummations that have been ordained by God, they were not that way.

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2008 2008

  • And the nature of the consummations that have happened here are not -- are not what you would call sex, even though it does -- the world looks at sex as this amorous, passionate type of experience of gratifying yourself with someone else.

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2008 2008

  • For only so long can a party preparing for the climax of an election keep denying itself, so that part of the explanation for the current haste is too many consummations already denied.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • And with him and with these consummations that have been ordained by God, they were not that way.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2008 2008

  • And it is very common for them to do the consummations of the marriages in front of -- others; to ensure that God has witnessed the marriage, if you will.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008 2008

  • For only so long can a party preparing for the climax of an election keep denying itself, so that part of the explanation for the current haste is too many consummations already denied.

    Political theatre of the absurd 2008

  • And it is very common for them to do the consummations of the marriages in front of others, to ensure that God has witnessed the marriage, if you will.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008 2008

  • And the nature of the consummations that have happened here are not are not -- are not what you would call sex, even though it does -- the world looks at sex as this amorous, passionate type of experience of gratifying yourself with someone else.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2008 2008

  • It's a paying transaction, shorn of love but not of desire, the consummation of the latter being remunerated at market rates, as are other consummations, offered to the consumer by the same invisible hand of the capitalist system.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • It may not pause and rest, for it must hasten on to other realms and greater consummations.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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