Definitions for solemnize

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solemnize sol·em·nize

Spelling: [sol-uh m-nahyz]

IPA: /ˈsɒl əmˌnaɪz/

Solemnize is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 333 anagrams from letters in solemnize (eeilmnosz).

Definitions for solemnize

verb (used with object)

1. to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
2. to hold or perform (ceremonies, rites, etc.) in due manner.
3. to observe or commemorate with rites or ceremonies:
4. to go through with ceremony or formality.
5. to render solemn, serious, or grave; dignify.

verb (used without object)

1. to become solemn; conduct oneself with solemnity.

Origin of solemnize

1350-1400; Middle English solempnise Medieval Latin sōlemnizāre, equivalent to Latin sōlemnis solemn + -izāre -ize

Examples for solemnize

The Monday following the pair presented themselves before the civil officials to solemnize their marriage by due legal ceremonies.

No melody was like a passing spright160 If it went not to solemnize thy reign.

I prefer, however, to solemnize marriage in the church, when possible.

For it is altogether indispensable that some one from thence be here to solemnize and ask a blessing upon the marriage.

There are no priests here, no churches here, no god to solemnize a marriage.

What hath so dire a tendency to solemnize the heart and impress it with the most just and weighty religious sentiments?

This day, so marked in my life, lacked no circumstance that was needed to solemnize it.

And then I purpose to leave Lord M. (dangerously ill as he is,) and meet her at her appointed church, in order to solemnize.

Instead of exciting me, there is everything to solemnize and still my feelings.

You give me your word, then, that it is a marriage I ought to solemnize?