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Meanings of procession in English

Portuguese
progressão
Catalan
avenç
Spanish
evolución

The act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

    progressão
    Portuguese
    procissão
    Spanish
    origen

    (Theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

          procissão

          A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line.

                Usage of procession in English
                1
                And so the Emperor went in the procession under the splendid canopy.
                From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
                2
                The shrine, the central feature of the procession, was presented in 1449.
                Life in a Mediæval City / Illustrated by York in the XVth Centur...
                3
                The procession of trial subjects took over an hour to work through.
                Lockdown
                4
                Opposite the funeral procession, a photo of young men with automatic weapons.
                Grave Secrets
                5
                They were assembled in the city and marshalled forth in piteous procession.
                Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
                6
                He will manage that the elephant is the first in the procession.
                The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal
                7
                The gentlemen in waiting on the foreign princes wound up the procession.
                Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
                8
                The small procession crept along the wide street in the bright sunlight.
                Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
                9
                At length the procession disappeared behind the first cottages in the village.
                Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
                10
                He arrived in Chicago in time for the prodigious procession of welcome.
                Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
                11
                The following was the order of the procession when it was completed:
                A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
                12
                The procession filled the whole length of the court-yard of the Tuilories.
                Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
                13
                Our superior rank places us in the front row of the procession.
                Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
                14
                Ravani and I were in the street when the whole procession passed.
                The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
                15
                A Serbian Orthodox church bishop held a service before the procession left.
                Reuters
                16
                Describe the final scene of the wedding-theprocession to the new home.
                The Literary World Seventh Reader
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                Procession through the time
                Procession across language varieties
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