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  Solemnity \So*lem"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Solemnities. [L. solemnitas,
     solennitas: cf. F. solennit['e], solemnit['e], OF. also
     sollempnit['e].]
     1. A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence;
        religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a
        funeral, a sacrament.
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              Great was the cause; our old solemnities
              From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise,
              But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay
              These grateful honors to the god of day. --Pope.
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     2. ceremony adapted to impress with awe.
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              The forms and solemnities of the last judgment.
                                                    --Atterburry.
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     3. Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave
        earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.
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              With much glory and great solemnity.  --Chaucer.
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              The statelines and gravity of the Spaniards shows
              itself in the solemnity of their language.
                                                    --Addison.
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              These promises were often made with great solemnity
              and confirmed with an oath.           --J. Edwards.
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     4. Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.
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              Solemnity 's a cover for a sot.       --Young.
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     5. 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.
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     6. (Law) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according
        to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a
        thing done valid.
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  Solemnity \So*lem"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Solemnities. [L. solemnitas,
     solennitas: cf. F. solennit['e], solemnit['e], OF. also
     sollempnit['e].]
     1. A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence;
        religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a
        funeral, a sacrament.
  
              Great was the cause; our old solemnities From no
              blind zeal or fond tradition rise, But saved from
              death, our Argives yearly pay These grateful honors
              to the god of day.                    --Pope.
  
     2. ceremony adapted to impress with awe.
  
              The forms and solemnities of the last judgment.
                                                    --Atterburry.
  
     3. Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave
        earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.
  
              With much glory and great solemnity.  --Chaucer.
  
              The statelines and gravity of the Spaniards shows
              itself in the solemnity of their language.
                                                    --Addison.
  
              These promises were often made with great solemnity
              and confirmed with an oath.           --J. Edwards.
  
     4. Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.
  
              Solemnity 's a cover for a sot.       --Young.
  
     5. 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.
  
     6. (Law) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according
        to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a
        thing done valid.

  solemnity
       n 1: a trait of dignified seriousness [syn: sedateness, staidness,
             solemness]
       2: a solemn and dignified feeling [syn: gravity] [ant: levity]

  solemnity
     Αγγλικά n.
     η σεμνότητα, σοβαρότητα, επισημότητα

  solemnity
     n.
     The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.

  solemnity
     n.
     The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.

  solemnity
     n.
     The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.

  solemnity
     n.
     The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.

  Solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  الجدية

  solemnity //səˈlɛmnɪti// 
  сериозност, тържественост
  quality of being solemn

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  vážnost

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  Ernst , Feierlichkeit 
     Synonym: gravity
  

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  Ernst , Erwürdigkeit , Erhabenheit 

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  Feierlichkeit 

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  Festlichkeit 
   see: solemnities
  

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  
  σοβαρότητα

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/ 
  1. गाम्भीर्य
        "He was burried with great solemnity."

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  formalnost, svečani obred, svečano držanje, svečanost, svečanosti

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  1. ünnepély
  2. komolyság
  3. ünnepélyesség

  solemnity /səlemnitiː/
  1. cæremonia, cærimonia

  solemnity /səlemnitiː/
  1. plechtigheid
  2. statigheid, wijding

  solemnity //səˈlɛmnɪti// 
  högtidlighet
  quality of being solemn

  solemnity /sɒlˈɛmnɪti/
  1. ağır başlılık, vakar
  2. ciddiyet
  3. kutlama töreni
  4. dini tören
  5. heybet
  6. heybet verici şey
  7. (huk.) resmiyet.

  
/səˈɫɛmnəti/

  SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, 
  or other act valid. 
       2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and 
  without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. 
  
  

  158 Moby Thesaurus words for "solemnity":
     aridity, augustness, baccalaureate service, barrenness, bleakness,
     bloodlessness, buckram, celebration, ceremonial, ceremoniousness,
     ceremony, characterlessness, circumstance, colorlessness,
     commencement, consequence, convocation, courtliness, darkness,
     deadness, dignifiedness, dignity, dismalness, dragginess,
     dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, duty, earnestness,
     effeteness, elevation, emptiness, empty formality, etiolation,
     exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, flatness, form,
     form of worship, formal, formality, formalization, formula,
     formulary, function, gloom, gloominess, graduation,
     graduation exercises, grandeur, gravity, grimness, heaviness,
     heraldry, hollowness, holy rite, impersonality, importance,
     impressiveness, inanity, inaugural, inauguration, inexcitability,
     initiation, insipidity, insipidness, institution, jejunity,
     kingliness, leadenness, lifelessness, liturgy, loftiness,
     lordliness, lowness of spirit, majesty, mode of worship,
     moderation, momentousness, mummery, mystery, no joke,
     no laughing matter, nobility, observance, office, order of worship,
     ordinance, paleness, pallor, performance, pointlessness, pokiness,
     pomp, pomposity, ponderousness, practice, prescribed form, pride,
     pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness,
     proud bearing, regality, religious ceremony, reserve, rigidness,
     rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance,
     rituality, sacrament, sacramental, sedateness, seriousness,
     service, slowness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness,
     sobersides, sobriety, solemnization, solemnness, somberness,
     spiritlessness, staidness, starchiness, state, stateliness,
     sterility, stiffness, stiltedness, stodginess, stuffiness,
     stylization, sublimity, superficiality, taciturnity, tastelessness,
     tediousness, temperance, uninterestingness, unliveliness, vapidity,
     vapidness, venerability, wearifulness, wearisomeness, weight,
     weightiness, woodenness, worthiness
  
  

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