Definition of Succession

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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.

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Succession Quotations

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley

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

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
Darrell Royal

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

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Bernard Baruch

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
Sheldon Adelson

Succession Translations

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

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