consecution
Americannoun
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succession; sequence.
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logical sequence; chain of reasoning.
noun
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a sequence or succession of events or things
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a logical sequence of deductions; inference
Etymology
Origin of consecution
1525–35; < Latin consecūtiōn- (stem of consecūtiō ), equivalent to con- con- + secūt ( us ), past participle of sequī to follow + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Even those who bicycle or drive see these sights but rarely and with no consecution, since roads also avoid climbing save where they are forced to it, as over certain passes.
From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire
Many of its suggestions and patterns of lessons are excellent; but there is too large a lack of true consecution of topics, of accuracy of expression, and of really natural method of handling the subjects.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
The ideas of space, time, power, law, reason, and end, are the logical antecedents of the ideas of body, succession, event, consecution, order, and adaptation.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Sometimes it is in a natural but rhythmic consecution of ideas.
From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd
The natural consecution of the Homeric images needs no exposition: it constitutes in itself one of the beauties of the work.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
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