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v. To celebrate or observe with dignity and gravity. See Synonyms at observe.

v. To perform with formal ceremony.

v. To make serious or grave.

v. To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.

v. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.

v. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate.

v. To make grave, serious, and reverential.

n. Solemnization.

To perform annually; perform as the year comes round.

To honor by ceremonies; celebrate: as, to solemnize the birth of Christ.

To perform with ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms: used especially of marriage.

To render solemn; make serious, grave, and reverential: as, to solemnize the mind for the duties of the sanctuary.

Also spelled solemnise.

n. Solemnization.

v. perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies

v. observe or perform with dignity or gravity

v. make solemn and grave

"For the sake of every citizen, and most of all for the sake of the children, it should "solemnize" marriage, and should do so on the understanding -- clearly expressed -- that those who come to be married intend to be faithful to each other "as long as they both shall live.""

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