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1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. xxiv^v/1 They durste not auaunce them to fore the dyuyne progression.

c1536 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1821) I. 6 Of this Hiber discendit, be lang progressioun, ane gret posterite.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Be progressione and ordur euyrie spere inclosis the spere that is nerest tyl it.

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. O4 What else then did he by progression, But mocke high God himselfe, whom they professe?

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 397 The Brasilians are said originally to have come..from Peru, advancing thither by progression from time to time.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxviii. 167 Of the bulk of the Body, to be thus infinitely divided after certain Progressions,..we have no clear..Ideas.

1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. iii. 275 A gradual progression thro' the points of space and time.

1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xlvi. 24 The laws..Whose long progression leads to Deity.

1844 R. Southey Life A. Bell I. 175 The experiment which..had been tried..with one class, was..extended to all the others in progression.

1899 E. J. Payne Hist. New World II. 201 This multiplication of elements denoting personality, in combination with more and more elements denoting Things, tends to the dissolution of the holophrase... The holophrase naturally follows the progression of the mind from point to point.

1909 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 20 4 A progression of stimulus intensities such that the differences of corresponding sensation between any consecutive pairs are equal to one another.

1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) ii. 6 Nearly all amphibians and most reptiles used all four limbs in progression, but many important reptiles were bipedal.

1992 European Travel & Life Apr. 91/1 A vista that unfolds in a progression of castles, ruins, and vineyards as seemingly endless as the Rhine itself.