consummation

[ kon-suh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of consummating; completion.
2. the state of being consummated; perfection; fulfillment.

Other Words From

• noncon·sum·mation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of consummation¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English consummacioun, from Middle French, from Latin consummātiōn-, stem of consummātiō; equivalent to consummate + -ion

Example Sentences

The concept of an election’s “consummation,” though, appears nowhere in federal statute, and therefore cannot distinguish early voting from late-arriving ballots.

From Slate

And he positively wallowed in violence, in near-pornographic fashion: “The whole earth, continually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.”

From Salon

Or any of the intimate details of the consummation of his lurid act.

From Salon

More than half of states still have marriage consummation laws that require sex to in some way prove the authenticity of a partnership.

From Salon

“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death,” Maistre writes.

From Salon