Procession vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
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The act of progressing or proceeding.
* Trench
A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
* Shakespeare
A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
(ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
To take part in a procession
(dated) To honour with a procession.
(transitive, legal, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
* Burrill
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
A public display of group opinion.
A show of military force.
A mathematical proof.
* , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
As nouns the difference between procession and demonstration
is that procession is the act of progressing or proceeding while demonstration is the act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.As a verb procession
is to take part in a procession.procession
English
(wikipedia procession)Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Pearson)
- That the procession of their life might be / More equable, majestic, pure, and free.
- a procession''' of mourners; the Lord Mayor's '''procession
- the townsmen on procession
- (Shipley)
Derived terms
* proceed * process * processionalSee also
* march-past * fly-past * cavalcade * motorcade * -cade * cortege * paradeVerb
(en verb)- To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.
Synonyms
* processExternal links
* *demonstration
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
