- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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