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Consummately

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con·sum·mate  (kns-mt)
tr.v. con·sum·mat·ed, con·sum·mat·ing, con·sum·mates
1.
a. To bring to completion or fruition; conclude: consummate a business transaction.
b. To realize or achieve; fulfill: a dream that was finally consummated with the publication of her first book.
2.
a. To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.
b. To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.
adj. (kn-smt, kns-mt)
1. Complete or perfect in every respect: consummate happiness. See Synonyms at perfect.
2. Supremely accomplished or skilled: "Sargent was now a consummate master of brushwork" Roberta Smith.
3. Complete; utter: a consummate bore.

[Middle English consummaten, from Latin cnsummre, cnsummt- : com-, com- + summa, sum; see sum1.]

con·summate·ly (kn-smt-l) adv.
consum·mative, con·summa·tory (-sm-tôr, -tr) adj.
consum·mator n.

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Not that he ever became consummately literary in the way his two teachers were.
Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
The terrible sea, the frail boat, the storms, the suffering, the strangeness and isolation of the situation,--all that should have frightened a robust woman,--seemed to make no impression upon her who had known life only in its most sheltered and consummately artificial aspects, and who was herself all fire and dew and mist, sublimated spirit, all that was soft and tender and clinging in woman.
 
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