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solemnise

solemnise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of solemnize.

Meaning of solemnize

Verb

solemnize (third-person singular simple present solemnizes, present participle solemnizing, simple past and past participle solemnized)

  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.
  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.

Forms of solemnise

third-person singular presentsolemnises
present participlesolemnising
past participlesolemnised
pastsolemnised

Origin of solemnise

From solemn + -ise.

Questions about solemnise

What is solemnise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Solemnise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of solemnize.

Words near solemnise in the dictionary

  1. solemnifies
  2. solemnify
  3. solemnifying
  4. solemnisation
  5. solemnisations
  6. solemnise
  7. solemnised
  8. solemniser
  9. solemnisers
  10. solemnises
  11. solemnising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: solemnise (page history and authors); solemnize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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