rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.]
† 1. The state or quality of being consequential (in senses 1–4). Obs.
1681. R. Burthogge, Argt. Infants Bapt. (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?
