solemnize
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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
Kate Black, the groom’s sister who received temporary authorization from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to solemnize this marriage, officiated.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2018
Tell him I am sorry I cannot accept the honour, as I to-day intend to solemnize an union which will consummate my happiness.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
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