All 3 Uses of
succession
in
Jane Eyre
- Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.
p. 238.6succession = a row (one after the other)
- They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them.
p. 249.6succession = series (one after another)
- A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land.
p. 286.1 *
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