Subsequently vs Finally - What's the difference?
subsequently | finally |
Following, afterwards in either time or place.
Accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction).
At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
(sequence) To finish (with); lastly.
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(manner) Definitively, comprehensively.
As adverbs the difference between subsequently and finally
is that subsequently is following, afterwards in either time or place while finally is at the end or conclusion; ultimately.subsequently
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Adverb
(-)Usage notes
Although subsequently may imply a cause and effect relationship, it may also be used when no cause is implied.Quotations
* 1832 — , volume II, chapter 7 *: It will be recollected that the ill-fated Halloway...distinctly stated the voice of the individual who had approached his post...to have been that of a female, and that the language in which they subsequently conversed was that of the Ottawa Indians. * {{quote-book, year=1905, author= , title= , chapter=1citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
