consecutiveness

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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

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

Good for moments these are always good: we may open by chance, dip anywhere, read in any order, begin at the last paragraph and read backward as well; obvious consecutiveness being of less consequence.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

Therefore, far from criticising it for deliberating upon this question and others of a similar nature, we should rather regret that it has not turned its attention upon them with more constancy and consecutiveness.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William