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solemnize

[sol-uhm-nahyz] / ˈsɒl əmˌnaɪz /


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There’s the subgenre focusing on Electoral College math and the architecture of the rites that solemnize the delivery of results.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

Nine years later, when the United Kingdom allowed same-sex couples to solemnize their marriages in religious ceremonies, Ortega-Medina and his husband married in a Jewish ceremony at West London Synagogue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

It’s a practice that in America has dated back to Colonial times when it was sometimes difficult to find a preacher to solemnize a marriage.

From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2022

In choosing a scholar over a satirist, the Correspondents’ Association had sought to solemnize a dinner known for its comedic puncturing of the Washington bubble.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2019

Within four years the Legislature of Upper Canada passed Acts allowing the various religious denominations to hold lands for churches, parsonages, and burying-grounds, and also allowing their ministers to solemnize marriages.

From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by Putnam, J. Harold




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