Definition of "consecution" [con•se•cu•tion]

• A sequence or succession. (noun)
• Logic The relation of consequent to antecedent; deduction. (noun)

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• "Surface Spherical, and that the flatting of the Surface in the middle is from the abatement of the waters pressure outwards, by the contrary indeavour of its gravity; it follows that the pressure in the middle must be less then on the sides; and therefore the consecution will be the same as in the former."
• "I found the use of ‘filthy’ twice in close consecution, which could be changed."
• "The chapter also contains discussions of the kinds of consecution or consequence, problems of inference connected with the referents of terms used in consecutive sentences, and also on how to contradict a conditional sentence."