consecutiveness

Example Sentences

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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 Dewey, John

"I wonder whether he believes anything at all!" said Sally, assuming the consecutiveness of her remark.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

It has more consecutiveness than Otranto, and escapes the absurdities of the copiously but clumsily used supernatural by administering it in a very minute dose.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

Yet there is beauty in his designs for the "Ancient Mariner," unreal as they are, and a consecutiveness rare in a series by Doré.

From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan

Concentration in the thinker, clearness, comprehensiveness, complexedness, consecutiveness, continuity—there are the six big C's, which are marks of the subjects which tend to create the thinker.

From Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College by Thwing, Charles Franklin