inconsecutive
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Origin of inconsecutive
First recorded in 1830–40; in- 3 + consecutive
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His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on�fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish.
From Time Magazine Archive
It stood in his memory not as a sequence of events but as a collection of disconnected static sayings; each saying blunt, permanent, inconsecutive like a graven inscription.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It was an act of recognition, even on the part of a philosophy of the inconsecutive, the incoherent, the insane, of that Wisdom which, "reacheth from end to end, sweetly and strongly ordering all things."
From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter
One of the traits that every critic notes in Emerson's writing is that it is so abrupt, so sudden in its transitions, so discontinuous, so inconsecutive.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
And all the while, behind her quick breathless inconsecutive talk she was thinking.
From In the Days of the Comet by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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