consecutiveness

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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

The recital really was interesting and entirely outside the priggishness of Science, but it was marred in consecutiveness and simplicity by Mrs. Rossiter's interruptions.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

As usual, I have paid no attention to order, literary style, or argumentative consecutiveness.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

You've given her just acuteness enough to question, without consecutiveness enough to explain.

From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo

He never closed his eyes, nor folded his arms, but went forward from work to work with the consecutiveness of a law of nature.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry