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 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)
The commencement of the new chapter at this point makes an unfortunate division; for its first two verses are in close consecution with the last verse of chapter iv.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Rames was no longer trying to remember the consecution of his speech.
From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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
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