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solemnizes

solemnizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about solemnizes

What is solemnizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Solemnizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of solemnize.

Words near solemnizes in the dictionary

  1. solemnizations
  2. solemnize
  3. solemnized
  4. solemnizer
  5. solemnizers
  6. solemnizes
  7. solemnizing
  8. solemnlike
  9. solemnly
  10. solemnness
  11. solempte

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