consecutiveness
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In calling the objects of his demand thoughts, he does not intend to ascribe to them dignity, consecutiveness, or truth.
From How We Think by John Dewey
He passed to the mysterious consecutiveness of scientific research, the sudden determination of the European race mind to know more than chance thoughts could tell it….
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
"Then you've given up that Klondike idea," observed Mrs Smithers, with more consecutiveness than was immediately apparent.
From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain
Gradually, however, by letting her talk in her own breathless way, and in an odd mixture of English, French, German, and Italian, she was able to put together the facts into a kind of consecutiveness.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
The 'vivida vis' of his understanding is apparent also in the clearness and consecutiveness of his philosophical style.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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