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successively

adverb

  1. in a serial or successive manner; one following another
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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English successive Middle English -ly English -ly English successively From successive + -ly.

  1. In a serial or successive manner; one following another.

    “My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. & Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before & three or four days before that.”

    “Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.”