different between pompousness vs procession

English

Etymology

pompous +? -ness

Noun

pompousness (usually uncountable, plural pompousnesses)

1. The quality of being pompous.

Synonyms

• pomposity (more common)

English

Etymology

From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin pr?cessi? (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from pr?c?dere, past participle pr?cessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s???n/
• Hyphenation: pro?ces?sion

Noun

procession (plural processions)

1. The act of progressing or proceeding.

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2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
   • 1914, Westways (volume 6, page 7)

     The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […]

3. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
4. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.

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Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• -cade
• cavalcade
• cortege
• flypast
• march-past
• motorcade
• parade

Verb

procession (third-person singular simple present processions, present participle processioning, simple past and past participle processioned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
2. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
3. (transitive, law, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
   • 1856, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, "PROCESSIONING", in A Law Dictionary and Glossary

     To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.

Synonyms

• process

Further reading

• procession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• procession in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.