Both Uses of
succession
in
Middlemarch
- And now within all the automatic succession of theoretic phrases—distinct and inmost as the shiver and the ache of oncoming fever when we are discussing abstract pain, was the forecast of disgrace in the presence of his neighbors and of his own wife.
Chpt 5 *succession = series (one after another)
- He looked at the ground, leaning forward and letting his long fingers droop between his legs, while each finger moved in succession, as if it were sharing some thought which filled his large quiet brow.
Chpt 7succession = sequence (one after another)
Definition:
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(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)