solempne

• “This religious man dissuadit the king, be mony reasonis, to pas to this huntis; and allegit the day wes so solempne, be reverence of the haly croce, that he suld gif him erar, for that day, to contemplation, than ony othir exersition.”

  Chronicles of the Canongate

• “Croce; and, becaus the samin wes ane hie solempne day, the king past to his contemplation.”

  Chronicles of the Canongate

• “And therfore I wille not spare, for hem that knowe not, ne beleve not, but that that thei seen, for to telle zou a partie of him and of his estate, that he holt, whan he gothe from contree to contree, and whan he makethe solempne festes.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Of the governance of the grete Chanes Court, and whan he makethe solempne Festes.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Mo ben there not of solempne festes, but zif he marye ony of his children.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Now schalle I telle zou the governance of the court of the grete chane, whan he makethe solempne festes: and that is princypally 4 tymes in the zeer.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “And aftre that, thei choppen alle the body in smale peces, and preyen alle his frendes to comen and eten of him, that is ded: and thei senden for alle the mynstralle of the contree, and maken a solempne feste.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “And theise solempne festes ben made with outen, in hales and tentes made of clothes of gold and of tartaries, fulle nobely.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Ones euery yere, all the chief heades of the Scitians, kepe a solempne drinckyng.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “In memorie wherof the churche vseth that daye, solempne procession, and halowing of candles, The fiue and twentieth of Marche, how the aungel brought woorde to the virgin Marie, that Christ shoulde be borne of her, being conceyued in her wombe; by the ouershadowing of the holy ghoste.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

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