Meaning

2 senses

  1. (US, transitive)To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.

    The couple chose to solemnize their relationship in a secular ceremony, instead of having a wedding.

    make solemn and grave

  2. To make grave, serious, and reverential.

    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.

Origin

From Middle English solempnisen, from Old French solemnisier, from Medieval Latin solemniz

From Middle English solempnisen, from Old French solemnisier, from Medieval Latin solemnizare, from Latin solemnis.

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Forms

solemnizes, solemnizing, solemnized, solemnized
Base formsolemnize · to solemnize
3rd person singularsolemnizes
Present participlesolemnizing
Past simplesolemnized
Past participlesolemnized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysolemnize
he, she, itsolemnizes

Past simpleLesson

all personssolemnized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave solemnized
he, she, ithas solemnized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill solemnize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make solemn and grave:solemnise
  • perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies:solemnise
  • observe or perform with dignity or gravity:solemnise

Word family

5 related words
Relatedsolemnization
Derivedresolemnizesolemnizablesolemnizerunsolemnize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
solesoleilsolelysolemnsolemnlysolicitC2solicitation
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