solemnize
verb (used with object)
to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
solemnizes
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present tense formof solemnize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
A something in a summer's day, As sIow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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
