recessional
a hymn or other piece of music played at the end of a service while the congregation is filing out.
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How to use recessional in a sentence
The very next year The recessional stirred the religious consciousness of the whole English-speaking race.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsA backward glance now and then showed that she was not watching the recessional as closely as she was listening to him.
Mary Ware in Texas | Annie F. JohnstonIn the meantime, the recessional frenzy extended all over the State, and every bank was obliged to close its doors.
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 | Harris NewmarkBoth literatures have the sanctuary hymn, and the processional and the recessional hymn.
The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise | Charles Gordon CummingSurely nothing could be more appropriate for Americans to sing at the present time than the recessional.
Immortal Songs of Camp and Field | Louis Albert Banks
British Dictionary definitions for recessional
/ (rɪˈsɛʃənəl) /
of or relating to recession
a hymn sung as the clergy and choir withdraw from the chancel at the conclusion of a church service
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