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Consummated vs Proven - What's the difference?

consummated | proven |

As verbs the difference between consummated and proven

is that consummated is past tense of consummate while proven is past participle of lang=en.

As an adjective proven is

having been proved; having proved its value or truth.

consummated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (consummate)

    • consummate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
  • * Addison
    • A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
  • * 1900 , ",
    • Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
  • * 1880 , ,
  • highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
  • * a consummate sergeant
  • * ,
    • The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.

    Synonyms

    * (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter

    Derived terms

    * consummately

    Verb

    (consummat)
  • To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
  • *
  • *
  • To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
  • To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
    • After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
  • * 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
  • To become perfected, receive the finishing touch

    • Synonyms

    * (bring to completion) complete, finish, round off

    Derived terms

    * consummation * consummative * consummator * consummatory

    Related terms

    * consume

    External links

    * * English heteronyms ----

    proven

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.
    • It's a proven fact that morphine is a more effective painkiller than acetaminophen is.
    Mass lexical comparison is not a proven method for demonstrating relationships between languages.

    Antonyms

    * (having been proved) unproven

    Verb

    (head)

    • Usage notes

    As the past participle of prove, proven is often discouraged, with proved preferred – “have proved” rather than “have proven”. However, today in everyday use they are both used, about equally. Historically, proved'' is the older form, while proven''' arose as a Scottish variant – see . Used in legal writing from mid 17th century, it entered literary usage more slowly, only becoming significant in the 19th century, with the poet among the earliest frequent users (presumably for reasons of meter). In the 19th century, '''proven was widely discouraged, and remained significantly less common through the mid 20th century (''proved being used approximately four times as often), by the late 20th century it came to be used about equally. As an attributive adjective, proven is much more commonly used, and proved is widely considered an error – “a proven method”, not *“a proved method”.

    References

    * English adjectives ending in -en English irregular past participles ----