Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An old spelling of
solemn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Solemn; grand; stately; splendid; magnificent.
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Examples
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Croce; and, becaus the samin wes ane hie solempne day, the king past to his contemplation.
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This religious man dissuadit the king, be mony reasonis, to pas to this huntis; and allegit the day wes so solempne, be reverence of the haly croce, that he suld gif him erar, for that day, to contemplation, than ony othir exersition.
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Ones euery yere, all the chief heades of the Scitians, kepe a solempne drinckyng.
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Mo ben there not of solempne festes, but zif he marye ony of his children.
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In memorie wherof the churche vseth that daye, solempne procession, and halowing of candles, The fiue and twentieth of Marche, how the aungel brought woorde to the virgin Marie, that Christ shoulde be borne of her, being conceyued in her wombe; by the ouershadowing of the holy ghoste.
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And theise solempne festes ben made with outen, in hales and tentes made of clothes of gold and of tartaries, fulle nobely.
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Of the governance of the grete Chanes Court, and whan he makethe solempne Festes.
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Now schalle I telle zou the governance of the court of the grete chane, whan he makethe solempne festes: and that is princypally 4 tymes in the zeer.
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And therfore I wille not spare, for hem that knowe not, ne beleve not, but that that thei seen, for to telle zou a partie of him and of his estate, that he holt, whan he gothe from contree to contree, and whan he makethe solempne festes.
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And aftre that, thei choppen alle the body in smale peces, and preyen alle his frendes to comen and eten of him, that is ded: and thei senden for alle the mynstralle of the contree, and maken a solempne feste.
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