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successions

n. (plural of succession English)

Usage examples of "successions".

Thus when monarchy was established at Rome, the whole system of successions was changed.

The jurists often mention antithetically universal successions and those confined to a single specific thing.

It would be remarkable, considering their history, if the same principles had not affected other singular successions also.

That theory depends very largely upon the notion of succession, to use the word just quoted from Savigny, and accordingly successions will be the subject of this and the following Lecture.

And when he had asked his question, and given his own answer to it, Finegas would take the matter up and make clear to him where the query was badly formed or at what point the answer had begun to go astray, so that Fionn came to understand by what successions a good question grows at last to a good answer.

His ear knew by what successions they arrived, and by what stages they grew and diminished.

Ladders, and successions of narrow, spiral stairs provided access to the topmost floors.

I asked her if he was that Italian general who'd fought against Austria in the War of the Polish Succession, and she laughed like I'd made the biggest joke in the world and said that Fibonacci had been a good deal earlier and a much greater man, and when she said successions she meant sequences.