Solemnize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Solemnize is a verb meaning (transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
Meaning
(transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
More Meanings
- To make grave, serious, and reverential.
Example Sentences
The great mysteries solemnised at Eleusis.
Every Israelite […] arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem […] and prayed.
The couple chose to solemnize their relationship in a secular ceremony, instead of having a wedding.
September 27, 1873, John Campbell Shairp, "Wordsworth's Three Yarrows", in Every Saturday Wordsworth was solemnized and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow.
Word Forms
- solemnizes
- solemnizing
- solemnized
- solemnise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include celebrate, commemorate, observe, conduct, perform, mark.
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