consummation
IPA: kɑnsʌmˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
- The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
- The achievement of perfection.
- Termination; the end (as of the world or of life); an end or resulting state.
- (law) The date at which the mortgagor becomes contractually obligated to the mortgagee in a real estate transaction.
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Examples of "consummation" in Sentences
- At the seventh, the consummation is fully attained (Re 11: 15).
- Unhappily, we fear that such a consummation is still far distant.
- * Till that blessed consummation is reached let all questions of minor importance be forgotten.
- The final consummation is the great theme of the Gospel announced to, and by, the prophets (compare Ga 3: 8).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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