consecution
[ kon-si-kyoo-shuh n ]
/ ˌkɒn sɪˈkyu ʃən /
noun
succession; sequence.
logical sequence; chain of reasoning.
Words nearby consecution
Example sentences from the Web for consecution
Experience, as they use the term, consists in sensations and their association,—consecution as Leibniz calls it.
He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics.
The consecution, moreover, runs in terms of persistence of quantity or of force.
The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays |Thorstein VeblenThere was a consecution nothing less than marvellous in the work of the philosophers from Kant to Hegel.
Edward Caldwell Moore |Edward Moore
British Dictionary definitions for consecution
consecution
/ (ˌkɒnsɪˈkjuːʃən) /
noun
a sequence or succession of events or things
a logical sequence of deductions; inference
Word Origin for consecution
C16: from Latin
consecūtiō, from
consequī to follow up, pursue