Definition of "consummation" []

• The act of consummating; a fulfillment. (noun)
• An ultimate goal or end. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "At the seventh, the consummation is fully attained (Re 11: 15)."