consecution

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He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

The word 'then' rather acts as an auspicious term by being pronounced and heard merely, while it denotes at the same time something else, viz. immediate consecution as said above.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

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.

There was a consecution nothing less than marvellous in the work of the philosophers from Kant to Hegel.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

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