All 3 Uses of
succession
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH.
p. 39.4 *succession = a row (one after another)
- It's very trying to have a drunken husband, you see; and it must be very trying to have twins three times in succession, don't you think?
p. 40.4
- Spring had come once more to Green Gables—the beautiful capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
p. 156.1succession = series (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