Crossword-Solution: SOLEMNITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Solemnity | n. | A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament. |
| Solemnity | n. | ceremony adapted to impress with awe. |
| Solemnity | n. | Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity. |
| Solemnity | n. | Hence, affected gravity or seriousness. |
| Solemnity | n. | Solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey. |
| Solemnity | n. | A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “SOLEMNITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| state or quality of being solemn | 1 answer |
| Measure of seriousness | 1 answer |
| Dignified seriousness | 1 answer |
| Gravitas | 3 answers |
| HUMOUR (ant.) | 6 answers |
| Rite | 16 answers |
| sombreness | 31 answers |
| grimness | 32 answers |
| sedateness | 32 answers |
| stateliness | 33 answers |
| seriousness | 36 answers |
| Earnestness. | 38 answers |
| coldness | 40 answers |
| Ritual | 42 answers |
| ALOOFNESS | 43 answers |
| impressiveness | 44 answers |
| diffidence | 46 answers |
| thoughtfulness | 47 answers |
| gravity | 52 answers |
| Magnitude | 55 answers |
| grandeur | 59 answers |
| Stiffness | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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Sentences with SOLEMNITY (5)
Here, in the quiet of Boldwood’s parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.
The boys talked little, and only under their breath, for the time and the place and the pervading solemnity and silence oppressed their spirits.
And, therefore, since we have been unfortunate enough to introduce our heroine at so inauspicious a juncture, we would entreat for a mood of due solemnity in the spectators of her fate.
With deep reverence and solemnity the bodies of the late Lord and Lady Greystoke were buried beside their little African cabin, and between them was placed the tiny skeleton of the baby of Kala, the ape.
Some few of the poorer Norman gentry might also be seen, distinguished by their shaven chins and short cloaks, and not less so by their keeping together, and looking with great scorn on the whole solemnity, even while condescending to avail themselves of the good cheer which was so liberally supplied.
Quotes with SOLEMNITY (3)
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always…
Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.
Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped into the next room I am I and you are you Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, Speak to me in the easy way which you always used Put no difference in your tone, Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household world that it always was, Let it be spoken w…
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).