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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The word 'then' rather acts as an auspicious term by being pronounced and heard merely, while it denotes at the same time something else, viz. immediate consecution as said above.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
Sometimes it is in a natural but rhythmic consecution of ideas.
From Study of the King James Bible by Cleland Boyd McAfee
There was a consecution nothing less than marvellous in the work of the philosophers from Kant to Hegel.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
The first is the spontaneous and as it were mechanical consecution of mental states in the soul whence the interfering effect of voluntary consciousness has been removed.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Having got them to perform each motion slowly and distinctly, then gradually accelerate the actions, until they are done as an entirety, with rapidity and in proper consecution.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
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