SUCCESSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does successively mean? 

• SUCCESSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb SUCCESSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in proper order or sequence

  Familiarity information: SUCCESSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCCESSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In proper order or sequence

Synonyms:

in turn; successively

Context example:

the stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater

Pertainym:

successive (in regular succession without gaps)

 Context examples 

Five daughters successively entered the world, but yet the son was to come; and Mrs. Bennet, for many years after Lydia's birth, had been certain that he would.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After 2012, deforestation began to increase successively with only minor dips.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Curiosity has been examining successively higher and younger layers of Mount Sharp, starting with the mudstone at the mountain's base, for evidence about changes in the area's ancient environment.

(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)

I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was here shown successively into three large bed-chambers, with their dressing-rooms, most completely and handsomely fitted up; everything that money and taste could do, to give comfort and elegance to apartments, had been bestowed on these; and, being furnished within the last five years, they were perfect in all that would be generally pleasing, and wanting in all that could give pleasure to Catherine.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The paper-based sensor, which can be worn as a wristband, features happy and sad emoticon faces—drawn in an invisible UV-sensitive ink—that successively light up as you reach 25%, 50%, 75% and finally 100% of your daily recommended UV exposure.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)

Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty’s reign, she did govern by a chief minister; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)