inconsecutive
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of inconsecutive
First recorded in 1830–40; in- 3 + consecutive
Example Sentences
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But Amanda was more prepared for human inconsecutiveness than Benham, because she herself was inconsecutive, and her dissatisfaction with his irritations and preoccupation broadened to no general discontent.
From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
We astonished ourselves and our hearers by the irregular and fragmentary nature of the creeds we produced, clotted at one point, inconsecutive at another, inconsistent and unconvincing to a quite unexpected degree.
From First and Last Things 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
I doubt not your stricture on the book as sometimes unconnected and inconsecutive is just.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
How cold, how tame, how lifeless, how imperfect, how inconsecutive, did everything appear!
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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