procession
/pɹəˈsɛʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of progressing or proceeding.
noun
A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
noun
A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
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."
Etymology
From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *per-, processioun, pourciession, prōcessiō
Usage
- Obsolete
- Intransitive verb
- Dated
- Transitive verb
- American usage