Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Completely; perfectly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a consummate manner; completely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
consummate manner
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Examples
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Law has not always been understood in consummately instrumental terms -- that is, purely as a means to an end.
Balkinization 2006
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The one is crudely artificial, the other consummately artificial.
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Tai chi consists of a series of movements strung together like pearls on a string, the intervals between those movements, however brief, are consummately important.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Paying Attention to the Space Between Life's Notes Arthur Rosenfeld 2010
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As the award indicates, Bronson today flourishes after surviving a consummately devastating period that seemingly left him bereft of direction after the deaths of his friends and collaborators.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011
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Tai chi consists of a series of movements strung together like pearls on a string, the intervals between those movements, however brief, are consummately important.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Paying Attention to the Space Between Life's Notes Arthur Rosenfeld 2010
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Standing well over 6-feet, with shoulder-length hair, and a charming smile, Shubhankar Ray is much like the brand he represents: striking, handsome and consummately cool.
Zandile Blay: G-Star Jeans on Why Spokesmodel Clémence Poésy Is the Perfect Fit Zandile Blay 2012
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Steve surely loved the thought, at least enough to buy the shirts, a consummately proud owner.
The Good Year Jesse Crockett 2011
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Not that he ever became consummately literary in the way his two teachers were.
Chapter XXVI 2010
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Standing well over 6-feet, with shoulder-length hair, and a charming smile, Shubhankar Ray is much like the brand he represents: striking, handsome and consummately cool.
Zandile Blay: G-Star Jeans on Why Spokesmodel Clémence Poésy Is the Perfect Fit Zandile Blay 2012
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Tai chi consists of a series of movements strung together like pearls on a string, the intervals between those movements, however brief, are consummately important.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Paying Attention to the Space Between Life's Notes Arthur Rosenfeld 2010
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