progression

See: accession, advance, advancement, arrangement, array, boom, chain, civilization, continuity, cycle, enlargement, gamut, headway, hierarchy, improvement, increase, manner, order, progress, promotion, prosperity, reform, sequence, serial, step, succession, way

PROGRESSION. That state of a business which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act done after the matter has commenced and before it is completed. Plowd. 343. Vide Consummation; Inception.