recessional
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7.8
- adjective
- /rɪˈsɛʃənl/
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recesional
- Traditionally, a joyful recessional hymn is performed to celebrate the end of a wedding ceremony.
- recessional velocity
Examples
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The recessional music played softly as the guests began to exit the church.
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The convocation ceremony marks the beginning of students' academic journey, providing them an opportunity to assemble as a class and, with the drama and regalia of the academic processional and recessional, foreshadow their graduation celebration.
Blog text (9) -
The organist began to play the recessional hymn.
Fiction book (1992) -
The recessional hymn ended on a harmonic.
Fiction book (1991) -
The service ended with a concluding prayer and a recessional hymn.
Blog text (32) -
"It is a solemn and important bit of pageantry, which is why so many commencement ceremonies include Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" as the processional and recessional.
Academic text (2016) -
At the end of the ceremony, the choir sang a beautiful recessional to mark the conclusion of the service.
Synonyms
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7.5
A return to an earlier, less advanced state that stops progress
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7.9
Moving backward or against the usual direction
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8.3
A change that makes things go back to a worse state
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
A piece of music that people play while they leave a formal ceremony like a wedding
How Receding
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word recessional comes from the parts re- 'back' and cedere 'to go', so as an adjective it describes something that is 'moving back' or retreating, just like a shoreline that recedes or an economy in recession.