solemnizes

• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of solemnize (3rd person singular).
  solemnize

  verb (used with object)

  to perform the ceremony of (marriage).

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solemnizes

This is followed by an audience participation segment, in which Edna solemnizes the marriage between two perfect strangers, one of whom happened to be already married.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015

It solemnizes and legitimizes and dignifies those who have departed into the squalid indignity of death, departed in a way so inhuman that humanity wants to pile on posthumous kindnesses, posthumous significances.

From Time Magazine Archive

She grows every leaf, and opens every flower, and solemnizes every bird-marriage, and utters every hymn of praise in the truthful and innate spontaneity of her universal soul.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

A something in a summer's day, As slow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

If they are published in two different parishes the clergyman of one parish must give a certificate of publication, which must be delivered to the clergyman who solemnizes the marriage.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

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