All 7 Uses of
succession
in
The Fountainhead
- Once he stayed there for two days and two nights in succession.
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1) *succession = a row (one after the other)
- In the next two days a succession of witnesses testified for the plaintiff.
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)succession = series (one after another)
- Then, one day, at various times, a succession of young boys, painfully combed and unconvincingly washed, came to visit the reading room.
Chpt 3.1 (definition 1)
- The succession of his mistresses was so rapid that it ceased to be gossip.
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2) *succession = replacement
- At the end there's nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass.
Chpt 3.5 (definition 1)succession = series (one after another)
- He heard three statements in his mind, in precise succession, like interlocking gears: It's spring—I wonder if I have many left to see—I am fifty-five years old.
Chpt 4.5 (definition 1)succession = sequence (order)
- Try staying awake for three nights in succession.
Chpt 4.9 (definition 1)succession = a row (one after the other without interruption)
Definitions:
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(1) (succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)
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(2) (succession as in: presidential line of succession) replacement -- especially someone to taking a job or position after another leaves it