solemnity

• Through it all Grace maintained an unreleased solemnity, a mournful superiority, a grim forbearance Maggie, watching, felt with a sinking heart that she was beginning to despise Paul His very movement as he hurried to place a cushion for Grace sent a little shiver down her back. —  The Captives
• The news concerning the prodigious hair spread like wild-fire among the populace of the district; and so the exhumation of Crepereia Tryphæna was accomplished with unexpected solemnity, and its remembrance will last for many years in the popular traditions of the new quarter of the Prati di Castello. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• The centre of the solemnity was the slaying and eating of the paschal lamb. —  The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
• 1: Human institutions observed in the sacraments are not essential to the sacrament; but belong to the solemnity which is added to the sacraments in order to arouse devotion and reverence in the recipients. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• Indeed, the priests themselves, except the one who chiefly repeated the prayers, either from their being familiarized to such objects, or from want of confidence in the efficacy of their institutions, observed very little of that solemnity which is necessary to give to religious performances their due weight. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16

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