Both Uses of
succession
in
The War of the Worlds
- Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as I have ever seen.
Chpt 1.10 *succession = series (one after another)
- During all the intervening time my mental condition had been a hurrying succession of vague emotional states or a sort of stupid receptivity.
Chpt 2.7succession = sequence (one after another)
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