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solemnize

solemnize verb: to make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.

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.
    • He now is gone to pꝛooue Coſmography, / And as I gueſſe, wil firſt ariue at Rome, / To ſee the Pope, and manner of his court, / And take ſome part of holy Peters feaſt, / That to this day is highly ſolemnizd.1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature D, recto
  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.
    • Every Israelite […] arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem […] and prayed.1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

solemnize meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

solemnize in Tamil

வினைமுறை நிறைவேற்று

solemnize in Malayalam

യഥാവിധി നിർവ്വഹിക്കുക

solemnize in Kannada

ಕಟ್ಟಲೆಯಂತೆ ನಡೆಸು

Forms of solemnize

third-person singular presentsolemnizes
present participlesolemnizing
past participlesolemnized
pastsolemnized
alternative formsolemnise

Origin of solemnize

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

Words formed from solemnize

Questions about solemnize

What does solemnize mean?
Solemnize means to make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
What is solemnize in Tamil?
Solemnize in Tamil is வினைமுறை நிறைவேற்று. See Solemnize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is solemnize?
Solemnize is a verb.
What is the past tense of solemnize?
The past tense of solemnize is solemnized.

Words near solemnize in the dictionary

  1. solemnizated
  2. solemnizates
  3. solemnizating
  4. solemnization
  5. solemnizations
  6. solemnize
  7. solemnized
  8. solemnizer
  9. solemnizers
  10. solemnizes
  11. solemnizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: solemnize (page history and authors); solemnize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); solemnize (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); solemnize (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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