consecution
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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 Woodgate, W. B.
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 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
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 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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