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Recessional

noun
1.
The withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service.  Synonym: recession.
2.
A hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw.



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"Recessional" Quotes from Famous Books



... about the things of the soul. She sat beside her grandmother, and drank in the sermon, and bowed her lovely, reverent head when she became aware that God was in the room and was being spoken to by His servant. After the last echo of the recessional had died away, and the bowed hush of the congregation had grown into a quiet, well-bred commotion of the putting on of wraps and the low Sabbath greetings, Elizabeth turned to ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill


Words linked to "Recessional" :   anthem, hymn, procession


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