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PROCESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
Synonyms:
advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("procession" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procession"):
push (an effort to advance)
career; life history (the general progression of your working or professional life)
march (a steady advance)
clear sailing; easy going; plain sailing (easy unobstructed progress)
leapfrog (advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors)
Derivation:
proceed (move ahead; travel onward in time or space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
Example:
processions were forbidden
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("procession" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procession"):
convoy (a procession of land vehicles traveling together)
caravan; train; wagon train (a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file)
cavalcade (a procession of people traveling on horseback)
march (a procession of people walking together)
motorcade (a procession of people traveling in motor cars)
parade (a ceremonial procession including people marching)
cortege (a funeral procession)
recession; recessional (the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
Example:
the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("procession" is a kind of...):
inception; origin; origination (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)
Domain category:
theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)
Context examples:
My uncle’s fears as to our being blocked upon the road were only too well founded, for after we passed Reigate there was such a procession of every sort of vehicle, that I believe for the whole eight miles there was not a horse whose nose was further than a few feet from the back of the curricle or barouche in front.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have a theory that the individual represents in his development the whole procession of his ancestors, and that such a sudden turn to good or evil stands for some strong influence which came into the line of his pedigree.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the middle of the fields the parson met them, and when he saw the procession he said: For shame, you good-for-nothing girls, why are you running across the fields after this young man?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I saw a universal manifestation of discontent when the fumes of the repast met the nostrils of those destined to swallow it; from the van of the procession, the tall girls of the first class, rose the whispered words—Disgusting! The porridge is burnt again!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Hence was it that the good burghers of Romsey were all in the streets, that gay flags and flowers brightened the path from the nunnery to the church, and that a long procession wound up to the old arched door leading up the bride to these spiritual nuptials.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were soon ready, and the procession set out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There is passion, adoration, in his eyes, and he goes about in a sort of trance, gazing in ecstasy at the swelling sails, the foaming wake, and the heave and the run of her over the liquid mountains that are moving with us in stately procession.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town’s life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He summoned them before him in apparitional procession: Bernard Higginbotham arm in arm with Mr. Butler, Hermann von Schmidt cheek by jowl with Charley Hapgood, and one by one and in pairs he judged them and dismissed them—judged them by the standards of intellect and morality he had learned from the books.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
