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sequel

[ see-kwuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work.
an event or circumstance following something; subsequent course of affairs.
a result, consequence, or inference.
Synonyms: end, outgrowth, upshot, aftermath

sequel

/ ˈsiːkwəl /

sequel

A narrative or dramatic work complete in itself but designed to follow an earlier one. Through the Looking-Glassis a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnis a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Origin of sequel¹

1375–1425; late Middle English sequel ( e ) < Latin sequēla what follows, equivalent to sequ ( ī ) to follow + -ēla noun suffix

Origin of sequel¹

C15: from Late Latin sequēla, from Latin sequī to follow

Some of these unfortunate women learn to suppress their sexual sensation so as to avoid all these disagreeable sequelæ.

The extension of such a social disease as slavery is one of the symptoms, one of the sequelæ, of the central malady.

An apparently complete recovery is sometimes followed by serious sequelæ of the nervous and blood-vessel systems.

Nevertheless, sequelæ will certainly occur less frequently after the use of Apis, for which we ought to be thankful.

My first fifty-mile walk years ago was begun in despair over a slow recovery from the sequelæ of diphtheria.

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