Definitions
Result or consequence of a cause; also to bring something about.
Word origin
Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.
Used in a sentence
“The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.”
“The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.”
“patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Consequence”6 letters
02“Result of a cause”6 letters
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