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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : suh k-sesh-uh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : səkˈsɛʃ ən |
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Définition of succession
Origin :- early 14c., "fact or right of succeeding someone by inheritance," from Old French succession (13c.), from Latin successionem (nominative successio) "a following after, a coming into another's place, result," from successus, past participle of succedere (see succeed). Meaning "fact of being later in time" is late 14c.
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- So for two mornings in succession he was sent away from the office.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- Rank after rank in succession appeared: literally thousands.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- He came ten days in succession, and gave me three hours each day.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Several doors were opened in succession, and finally his own.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- We are a succession of phenomena very absolutely determined.
- Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
- All that we can know about that is that in us there is a succession of ideas, of representations; but we, but I, what is that?
- Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
- She developed a succession of small ailments, lassitudes, nerves.
- Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
- The cake was cut in succession by poets, by painters, and by novelists.
- Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
- Upon his inward sight was impressed a succession of memory-pictures.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- When you get there you must loosen your girdle and strike the tree with it three times in succession.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
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