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Definition of Succession

Succession The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. Related Definitions: According, Act, After, Also, An, Ancestor, Another, As, Chronology, Descent, Enter, Entrance, Established, Father, Following, Good, Heir, Held, In, Into, Kin, Lineage, Near, Ny, Of, Office, One, Or, Order, Other, Person, Place, Position, Possession, Power, Precedence, Preceding, Predecessor, Property, Race, Rank, Right, Rule, Sequence, Series, So, Some, Specifically, Station, Succeeding, Succession, Successor, The, Throne, Time, Title, To, Upon

Succession Quotations Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. Joseph Addison Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. Honore de Balzac Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley

Succession Translations succession in German is Folge {f}, Aufeinanderfolge {f} succession in Latin is successio

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