Definition of "consist in" [consist in]

• To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part. (verb)

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• "“Remember that if this commission proves troublesome it was voluntary on your part,” Morris wrote playfully; “your only reward will consist in the approbation no doubt your Taste in the Choice will meet with, and the Thanks of Mrs. Morris and myself.”"
• "In general, linguistic usage reserves the term only for conflicts which consist in parallel efforts by both parties concerning the same prize."
• "All reasoning seems to consist in such unit steps, and it seems misleading to talk of inference vi materiæ; material and formal are relative terms."