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adjective

Solemn adj.

1.

Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred. "His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned." "The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year."

2.

Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal. (Obs.) "On this solemn day."

3.

Stately; ceremonious; grand. (Archaic) "His feast so solemn and so rich." "To-night we hold a splemn supper."

4.

Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness. "Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts." "There reigned a solemn silence over all."

5.

Real; earnest; downright. (Obs. & R.) "Frederick, the emperor,... has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks."

6.

Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face. "A solemn coxcomb."

7.

(Law) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2.

Synonyms: Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; reverential; devotional; devout. See Grave.

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Etymology of 'Solemn'

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— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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— Wood Folk at School • William J. Long

... memory of these peculiar experiences as fantasies of sleep. But he was satisfied that he had not slept; that on the contrary he had been preternaturally conscious throughout the long, eventful night. In solemn retrospect he retraced his past career. He remembered that for some years he had had symbolic dreams and symbolic hallucinations—as of a golden key, a tongue of flame, and voices—which had at the ...

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