Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Solemnity.
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Examples
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I managed to not explode into laughter by biting down on my lip and just solemny nodding my head.
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Tupac Inca Yupanqui entered Cuzco with the greatest, the richest, and the most solemny triumph with which any Inca had ever reached the House of the Sun, bringing with him people of many different races, strange animals, innumerable quantities of riches.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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_ She has not quitted it this morning [Lon.] and solemnly pronounce a vow [solemny]
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Two of the ambassadors were solemny baptized 16 July.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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She might and ought to have taken a much higher view of the subject -- a view which should have excluded a consideration of James Anderson: that view should have been a refusal to commit the perjury of solemny vowing before Heaven to love and honour a man for whom she entertained such opposite feelings.
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We present you the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth (minus the "solemny swearing" thingy, and keeping our fingers crossed).
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