Synonyms for sequence
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Top 10 synonyms for sequence
Définition of sequence
Origin :- late 14c., "hymn sung after the Hallelujah and before the Gospel," from Old French sequence "answering verses" (13c.), from Medieval Latin sequentia "a following, a succession," from Latin sequentem (nominative sequens), present participle of sequi "to follow" (see sequel). In Church use, a partial loan-translation of Greek akolouthia, from akolouthos "following." General sense of "succession," also "a sequence at cards," appeared 1570s.
- noun series, order
- More and more nervous, she was losing hold on the sequence of her facts.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- The most natural thought to follow in sequence is: How like his own art!
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
- Extract from : « The Lyric » by John Drinkwater
- In unity of sequence, the effect of variety is best exemplified by the 9.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- What has it to do with trains of reasoning, or with the sequence of events in time?
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- They have been moved to their proper place in the sequence of Figures.
- Extract from : « Architecture » by Thomas Roger Smith
- Are there no contradictions, no gaps in the sequence of ideas?
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois
- This does not mean that the sequence must be as enumerated here.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- It must always take this sequence; why, I have not ascertained.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
- Lucy at her prayers, Lucy in her bed, had large gaps in the sequence of her thoughts.
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Antonyms for sequence
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