solemnize
verb (used with object)
to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
had been solemnizing
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past perfect progressiveof solemnize.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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It denied that the Church had been solemnizing any plural marriages of late, and advised the faithful "to refrain from contracting any marriages forbidden by the law of the land."
From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
A patriarch of the Church, resident in Davis County, less than fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, had been solemnizing these unlawful unions at wholesale.
From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
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