consecution

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Sometimes it is in a natural but rhythmic consecution of ideas.

From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd

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

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 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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Rames was no longer trying to remember the consecution of his speech.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)