consecution

American  

[kon-si-kyoo-shuhn] / ˌkɒn sɪˈkyu ʃən /

noun

1. succession; sequence.

2. logical sequence; chain of reasoning.

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consecution British  

/ ˌkɒnsɪˈkjuːʃən /

noun

1. a sequence or succession of events or things

2. a logical sequence of deductions; inference

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Etymology

Origin of consecution

1525–35; < Latin consecūtiōn- (stem of consecūtiō ), equivalent to con- con- + secūt ( us ), past participle of sequī to follow + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Even those who bicycle or drive see these sights but rarely and with no consecution, since roads also avoid climbing save where they are forced to it, as over certain passes.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

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

There was a consecution nothing less than marvellous in the work of the philosophers from Kant to Hegel.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

The natural consecution of the Homeric images needs no exposition: it constitutes in itself one of the beauties of the work.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

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)