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Solemnize   Listen
verb
Solemnize  v. t.  (past & past part. solemnized; pres. part. solemnizing)  
1.
To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. "Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another."
2.
To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. "Their choice nobility and flowers... Met from all parts to solemnize this feast."
3.
To make grave, serious, and reverential. "Wordsworth was solemnizzed and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow." "Every Israelite... arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem... and prayed."





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"Solemnize" Quotes from Famous Books



... whom it was given. And in order, presumably, that they should choose good men in preference to corrupt men, the polling-day was to be set apart as a sacred holiday, and church services were to be held to solemnize the public act and seek for the ...
— Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government • T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth
... bastard Norman tyrant, appears among the list of worthies who first landed on the rock, which your veneration has preserved as a lasting monument of their achievement. The great actors of the day we now solemnize were illustrious by their intrepid valor no less than by their Christian graces, but the clarion of conquest has not blazoned forth their names to all the winds of heaven. Their glory has not been wafted over oceans of blood ...
— Orations • John Quincy Adams


Words linked to "Solemnize" :   wed, marry, observe, tie, change, alter, solemnise, solemnization, modify


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