sequacious

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If one were required to name the most non-sequacious author one had ever read, I do not see how one could help nominating Emerson.

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  1. adjective Persisting in a continuous intellectual or stylistic direction: "I make these notes, but am tired of notes . . . I want something sequacious now & robust” (Virginia Woolf).
  2. adjective Disposed to follow another or others, as a leader.
  3. adjective Slavishly unthinking and uncritical.

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  • If one were required to name the most non-sequacious author one had ever read, I do not see how one could help nominating Emerson. —  Obiter Dicta Second Series
  • Emerson's meaning, owing to his non-sequacious style, is often very difficult to apprehend. —  Obiter Dicta Second Series
  • The human race is gregarious and sequacious, rather than individual and adventurous. —  Horace and His Influence
  • No man can he eloquent whose thoughts are abrupt, insulated, capricious, and (to borrow an impressive word from Coleridge) non-sequacious. —  Biographical Essays
  • But this merely sequacious thought was promptly routed. —  The Avalanche
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin sequāx, sequāc-, pursuing, from sequī, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin sequax(-ac-), following or seeking after, from sequi, follow, pursue: see sequent.
 

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