succession
IPA: sʌksˈɛʃʌn
noun
- An act of following in sequence.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A race or series of descendants.
- (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
- A right to take possession.
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Advertisement
Examples of "succession" in Sentences
- To do all of these contradictory things in succession is astounding.
- Furthermore, to read many books in succession is to dilute the effect of all of them:
- So it is that the source falls in succession from the two witnessing parties (Rove and Fitzgerald).
- Thus he says, "It is incumbent to obey the _presbyters_ who are in the Church, those who possess the succession from the apostles, and who together with the _succession of the episcopate_ have received the certain gift of truth." ...
- The almost universal testimony of English men and women who have undergone great fatigue, such as riding long journeys without stopping, or sitting up for several nights in succession, is that they could do it best upon an occasional cup of tea – and nothing else.
- But if, time thus spreading itself out in space and succession becoming juxtaposition, science has nothing to change in what it tells us, we must conclude that, in what it tells us, it takes account neither of _succession_ in what of it is specific nor of _time_ in what there is in it that is fluent.
- Even Robert Hall (in his famous Sermon on Modern Infidelity) could but play, when he attempted grappling with the subject, upon the words _time_ and _eternity_, and strangely argue, that as each member of an infinite series must have begun in _time_, while the succession itself was _eternal_, it was palpably absurd to ask us to believe in a _succession_ of beings that was thus infinitely earlier than any of the beings themselves which composed the succession.