solemnising

The Anglican pastor who risked earning the church's wrath by solemnising their union in a ceremony not recognised by law said he would be happy to perform the rites all over again.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

Furthermore, same-sex marriage in one form or another has been around in the West for well over thirty years, if we include in religious ceremonies solemnising same-sex relationships that did not have the force of law, and legally, in a vastly increasing number of countries, since 1989.

California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto 2005

Furthermore, same-sex marriage in one form or another has been around in the West for well over thirty years, if we include in religious ceremonies solemnising same-sex relationships that did not have the force of law, and legally, in a vastly increasing number of countries, since 1989.

California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto 2005

It is a striking and solemnising little church, quite in harmony with

The Cornwall Coast

It threw out in greater relief the wayside crosses that we passed on the road, solemnising the scene, and insensibly leading the mind to contemplation; all the beauty, all the mystery of our faith, the lights and shadows of our earthly pilgrimage, so typified by the days and nights of creation; and the "one far-off divine event" which concerns us all.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various

It further provides a system by which the scruples of Dissenters are saved without destroying the religious character of the contract, by allowing sectarian places of worship to be registered for the purpose of solemnising marriage therein.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Second, that it professes no preference, and shows no favour for ecclesiastical marriages over those constituted by simple contract or mere registration, the old-fashioned mode of solemnising, them by a clergyman being merely saved from abolition, but shorn of all its privileges, and left, as it were, to die out in due time.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

The mountain Sanctuary, though marred by debased decoration and heathenised by the lurid figures of the guardian demons, inspires a reverent devotion, and exercises a solemnising influence on many souls whose faith differs from that of the white-clad monks, who seek to scale the dim heights of perfection from this lofty peak.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Amongst them were the horned faunes, and lasciuious satyres, solemnising their faunall feasts, being assembled togither out of diuers places, within this fertile & pleasant cuntrie: bearing in their hands so tender green and strãge boughs, as are not to be foũd in the wood of the goddes _Feronia_, [B] when the inhabitants carrie hir image to the fire.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

The pervading characteristic is simplicity, and the effect solemnising.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story