Solemnity Definition

sə-lĕmnĭ-tē
solemnities
noun
solemnities
Solemn feeling, character, or appearance; serious or awesome quality; gravity.
Webster's New World
Solemn ceremony, ritual, observance, etc.
Webster's New World
The formality needed to validate an act, contract, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Solemnity

Noun

Singular:
solemnity
Plural:
solemnities

Origin of Solemnity

  • Middle English solemnity (“observance of formality and ceremony"), frequently in the phrases in solemnity, with solemnity, which from Old French solemnite, from Latin sollemnitās, from sollemnis. (Compare solemn.)

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Solemnity Sentence Examples

  • The pictures captured the solemnity of this day.

  • In public he maintained a bearing of rigid solemnity, and was seen to laugh only three times in the course of his life.

  • To mark the solemnity of the occasion, the patriarch's name was changed to Abraham, and that of his wife to Sarah.

  • Humor will break up the solemnity of an occasion, or provide a welcome moment of light relief.

  • He possessed some oratorical ability and adopted a very theatrical style of elocution, "tuning his voice and balancing his hands"; and his addresses were a strange medley of solemnity and buffoonery, of clever wit and the wildest absurdity, of able and original disquisition and the worst artifices of the oratorical charlatan.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOL

Words Ending With

YTYITY

Unscrambles

solemnity

Words Starting With S and Ending With Y

Starts With S & Ends With YStarts With SO & Ends With YStarts With S & Ends With TY

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With S9 Letter Words Ending With Y