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Recessional

adjective
1.
Of or relating to receding.
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



... to her; of classic composition she was also serenely ignorant, so the absence of these in her picture did not annoy her. On the contrary, there was something hideously modern and recessional in her vigorous endeavour to include in her drawing everything her grey eyes chanced to rest on. She even arose and gently urged a cow into the already overcrowded composition, and, having accomplished ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... obliged with a recital of "The Recessional" and extracts from "Lalla Rookh." By request, she gave "An Old Sweetheart ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... words of commitment, "Unto God's gracious mercy and protection." They sang only hymns of victory, hymns that he especially loved and which were expressive of his faith and spirit: John Bunyan's "He who would valiant be," and "There is a wideness in God's mercy." The recessional moved to the church door to the triumphant words "For all the saints who from their labors rest," set to the stirring tune of R. Vaughan Williams. Thus in the simplicity and dignity of the things said and done there that afternoon did the passing of this ...
— Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati • Warren C. Herrick


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