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solemnizate

solemnizate is the obsolete form 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 solemnizate

third-person singular presentsolemnizates
present participlesolemnizating
past participlesolemnizated
pastsolemnizated

Origin of solemnizate

From Medieval Latin sōlemnizō + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about solemnizate

What is solemnizate the obsolete form of?
Solemnizate is the obsolete form of solemnize.

Words near solemnizate in the dictionary

  1. solemnising
  2. solemnities
  3. solemnitude
  4. solemnity
  5. solemnizable
  6. solemnizate
  7. solemnizated
  8. solemnizates
  9. solemnizating
  10. solemnization
  11. solemnizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: solemnizate (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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