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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of solemnize.

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Examples

  • Lloyd and Ragsdale are fortunate priests in that their union was legalized by the state of Massachusetts and "solemnized" in the language of the Episcopal Church.

    Irene Monroe: Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other! Irene Monroe 2011

  • Lloyd and Ragsdale are fortunate priests in that their union was legalized by the state of Massachusetts and "solemnized" in the language of the Episcopal Church.

    Irene Monroe: Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other! Irene Monroe 2011

  • Massachusetts and "solemnized" in the language of the Episcopal Church.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Irene Monroe 2011

  • Public Health Department spokesman William Gerrish says couples have 65 days to have their nuptials "solemnized" by a minister, justice of the peace or other officiator.

    WBAY Action 2 News 2008

  • Public Health Department spokesman William Gerrish says couples have 65 days to have their nuptials "solemnized" by a minister, justice of the peace or other officiator.

    KWCH - KWCH.com RSS 2008

  • Public Health Department spokesman William Gerrish says couples have 65 days to have their nuptials "solemnized" by a minister, justice of the peace or other officiator.

    Norwich Bulletin Home RSS 2008

  • The past marriages of freedmen, although often formally solemnized, have not been so authenticated that misconduct can be legally punished, or inheritance rightly determined.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The rules not only granted the legal right to marry to ex-slaves but also established the rules of marriage for them including eligibility for marriage and for divorce and, most significantly, made marriage, like it was already for free whites, an obligation: “No Parties . . . will be allowed to live together as husband and wife until their marriage has been legally solemnized.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • No sooner was Dawson reached than the barbaric marriage that had joined them was re - solemnized, in the white man's fashion, before a priest.

    THE FAITH OF MEN 2010

  • LDS couples throughout Europe, for instance, have a civil ceremony to which they invite anyone and everyone they want, then have their religious vows solemnized in a temple, often within the same week.

    Holly Welker: The LDS Temple and Respect for All Families Holly Welker 2010

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