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consecutions

consecutions is the plural of consecution.

Meaning of consecution

Noun

consecution (countable and uncountable, plural consecutions)

  1. (archaic) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
    • Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progressa. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...
  2. (obsolete) A succession or series of any kind.
    • there shall be generated such a consecution of colours, whose order, from the thin end towards the thick, shall be yellow, red, purple, blue, green, and these so often repeated1664, Isaac Newton, edited by David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, volume 1, published 1855, page 159
  3. (archaic) Sequence.
  4. The relation of consequent to antecedent.
  5. A succession of similar intervals in harmony.

Questions about consecutions

What is consecutions the plural of?
Consecutions is the plural of consecution.

Words near consecutions in the dictionary

  1. consecuted
  2. consecutes
  3. consecuting
  4. consecutio temporum
  5. consecution
  6. consecutions
  7. consecutive
  8. consecutive fifths
  9. consecutive interpretation
  10. consecutive interpreting
  11. consecutively

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