A trait of dignified seriousness.
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Examples for "solemnity "
Examples for "solemnity "
1 And you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year.
2 There is a striking solemnity in the answer of Pantheus to Aeneas:
3 The silence and the solemnity of the whole seemed to him extraordinary.
4 The ceremony was performed in the accustomed manner, and with due solemnity .
5 The solemnity of the scene accorded with the importance of his undertaking.
1 He invented the most wonderful stories, and told them with imperturbable sedateness .
2 Let us then, my Imogen, compose ourselves to the sedateness of despair.
3 Her wonted sedateness vanished as she thus became her daughter's playmate.
4 She again noticed my sedateness , and inquired into the cause.
5 There is another passion but its sedateness hardly qualifies it for that intense term.
1 On the whole the staidness of the courtship was pleasing to her.
2 You might be thirty, Ruth, instead of twenty-two, by the staidness of your demeanor.
3 She thought only of women of her mother's age and staidness , who wore bonnets.
4 To-night Honor walked upstairs with unwonted staidness and gravity.
5 He achieved a staidness , and calmness, and philosophic tolerance.
1 She said it with such an earnest solemness that her companions shouted with laughter.
2 A wave of solemness came over the room.
3 Say-look at that awful gravity-lookat that pallid solemness - there ain't any corpse can lay over it.
4 And 'twas as if she were some prophetess who spoke, her face and eyes glowed with such fire and solemness .
5 'I will, in all solemness and truth.'
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