abandoned vs proceeding

abandoned

adj
  • Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. 

  • No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it. 

  • Free from constraint; uninhibited. 

  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. 

proceeding

noun
  • An event or happening; something that happens 

  • A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society. 

  • A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction 

  • The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction 

  • Progress or movement from one thing to another. 

  • Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit. 

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