consecution
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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
Even those who bicycle or drive see these sights but rarely and with no consecution, since roads also avoid climbing save where they are forced to it, as over certain passes.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Rames was no longer trying to remember the consecution of his speech.
From The Turnstile by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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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