Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being solemn; seriousness or gravity of manner; solemnity. Also
solemnness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun
solemnness .
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- noun Obsolete form of
solemnness .
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- noun a trait of dignified seriousness
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Examples
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This experience gave me a newfound appreciation for the solemness of Yom Kippur, yet the luxury of youthful innocence still kept me from really feeling the need to atone or forgive.
Annette Powers: Yom Kippur and the Gift of Forgiveness Annette Powers 2011
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This experience gave me a newfound appreciation for the solemness of Yom Kippur, yet the luxury of youthful innocence still kept me from really feeling the need to atone or forgive.
Annette Powers: Yom Kippur and the Gift of Forgiveness Annette Powers 2011
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This experience gave me a newfound appreciation for the solemness of Yom Kippur, yet the luxury of youthful innocence still kept me from really feeling the need to atone or forgive.
Annette Powers: Yom Kippur and the Gift of Forgiveness Annette Powers 2011
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This experience gave me a newfound appreciation for the solemness of Yom Kippur, yet the luxury of youthful innocence still kept me from really feeling the need to atone or forgive.
Annette Powers: Yom Kippur and the Gift of Forgiveness Annette Powers 2011
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Obama reflected on Kennedy's presence at the passage of the Voting Rights Act and suggested that while the event was celebratory, concern for the senator necessarily cast an element of solemness to events.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama Confirms Sen. Ted Kennedy Collapse During Inaugural Luncheon 2009
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Obama reflected on Kennedy\'s presence at the passage of the Voting Rights Act and suggested that while the event was celebratory, concern for the senator necessarily cast an element of solemness to events. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama Confirms Sen. Ted Kennedy Collapse During Inaugural Luncheon 2009
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The other older children when they were singing "We are the World" went from the solemness (ph) to the joyfulness.
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Thus sweetly did he palliate the woes, which the generosity of his actions, mixed with the solemness of the occasion, and the strange request he had vouchsafed to make me, had occasioned.
Pamela 2006
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He found means to slide a letter into my hands, and is gone away: He looked at me with such respect and solemness at parting, that Mrs. Jewkes said, Why, madam, I believe our young parson is half in love with you. —
Pamela 2006
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The darkness, the grief of the angels and the spent posture of Jesus' body all remind me of the solemness of what that moment must have been like.
My second favorite Pieta Dymphna 2006
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