Procession

/pɹəˈsɛʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The act of progressing or proceeding..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of progressing or proceeding.
2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
3. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
4. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
5. (cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
6. (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
7. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
8. (transitive, law, US, North Carolina, Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).

Example Sentences

From whence it came to pass in the primitive times , that the Latin fathers taught expressly the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son

Yet proof is here of men's unquenched desire / That the procession of their life might be / More equable majestic pure and free; […]

a procession of mourners

the Lord Mayor's procession

Here comes the towneſ-men, on Proceſſion, / To preſent your Highneſſe with the man.

By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […]

In many a form I see thee oft In myriad manners are thy praises told In old processions carved on Grecian urns

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Word Forms

• processions
• processioning
• processioned

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