Solemnity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOLEMNITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being solemn
• the state or quality of being serious and dignified
• a formal, dignified rite or ceremony
• state or quality of being solemn
• A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.
• ceremony adapted to impress with awe.
• Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.
• Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.
• Solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.
• A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
• a trait of dignified seriousness
• a solemn and dignified feeling
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event

Words related to SOLEMNITY

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How to use SOLEMNITY in a sentence

• This distinction is often repeated and always with great solemnity.
• The searching daylight, the plain, matter-of-fact character of the manifestations, the absence of all solemnity and mystery, impressed me favorably towards the spiritual theory.
• The forest, the rugged scenery, the quiet retreat, all these appeared to add to the solemnity of the occasion.
• He speaks of it now with great solemnity, and asks his mother if she remembers it.
• The wonderful associations of the place lent to such occasions a special interest and solemnity.
• The silence roused Kenkenes and he realized the solemnity of the earth, the vastness of the sky and the majesty of the solitude.
• They looked on sin and death and hell with absorbing and overwhelming solemnity, and they set themselves with all their might to escape from these direst of evils.
• Live over in your imagination all the solemnity and sorrow that Lincoln felt at the Gettysburg cemetery.
• The people had assembled, as usual, at the Quirinal, only with more form and solemnity than usual.
• The king, with all his court and the whole population of the city, exalt the solemnity by their presence.
• Thirty persons, who had remained after the conclusion of the solemnity to pray before the ancient image, suddenly perceived it to move, as if alive.
• That kind of thing went on all around the table, until when George had completed his crime the whole place was full of a thick solemnity and silence.
• Lifting his wand with great solemnity, Gorbodoc touched the trunk of the elm.
• This was in 1643, and thus did the English observe the treaty of peace made seven years before under circumstances of extraordinary solemnity.
• Not a man there but felt a certain solemnity in the occasion.
• The dance was immediately suspended, and a solemnity and horror, as if the presage of approaching doom, fell upon the startled assemblage.
• These eager attentions alarmed Madame Birotteau, and day by day her face grew sadder as the great solemnity drew near.
• But Eric had not yet learnt to disregard the solemnity of the place, and the sacred act in which they were engaged.
• The funeral of their chiefs is a ceremony of great solemnity, and in some of its forms has a strong resemblance to an Irish wake.
• A sacred tree in the forest, generally a tall and solitary oak, marks the scene of the solemnity.
• A cold and formal exhortation, or even an apparently earnest one, delivered in a tone of affected solemnity, will produce no good effect.
• All eyes were fixed on the door, which opened slowly and with a kind of solemnity.
• The churches in several instances were draped with black, and the ceremonies conducted with more than ordinary solemnity.
• Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions to-day.
• For obvious reasons, all possible solemnity was given to the proceedings necessary on this occasion.
• The accused besought his inexorable judge for some remission of the sentence, falling on his knees before him just as the hermit, with great solemnity, entered the hall.
• Having delivered this verdict with all solemnity, I must straightway proceed to hedge.

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