solemnize
verb (used with object)
to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
solemnise
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a variation of
solemnize.
Example Sentences
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Excluded by traditional marriage ceremonies, Indian-American gay couples in the US are finding new and unique ways to solemnise their unions, reports Savita Patel.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2021
While archeologists tended to solemnise prehistoric art as “magico-religious” or “shamanic,” today’s more secular viewers sometimes detect a vein of sheer silliness.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019
I have witnessed long-established relationships fall apart like wet paper over one partner's mistaken expectation that the other might want to solemnise their love.
From BBC ● May 1, 2016
The government launched the consultation stating it "tends towards the view" that same-sex marriage should be introduced but that faith groups and their celebrants should not be obliged to solemnise the ceremonies.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2012
The Syracusan people solemnise, at the cost of two hundred minae, the funeral of this man, the Corinthian Timoleon, son of Timodemus.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
