solemnize

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

Although Mr. Tenzin is not authorized to solemnize a wedding in Colorado, the state allows for self-solemnizing.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

North Carolina has attempted to accommodate officials like Davis, allowing some register of deeds workers who assemble marriage licenses and magistrates who solemnize civil marriages to recuse themselves.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2015

Where distant ships do seem to show their keels Phœbus awhile delayed his mighty wheels, And turned to smile upon thy bashful eyes Ere he his unseen pomp would solemnize.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

This is followed by an audience participation segment, in which Edna solemnizes the marriage between two perfect strangers, one of whom happened to be already married.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015

It solemnizes and legitimizes and dignifies those who have departed into the squalid indignity of death, departed in a way so inhuman that humanity wants to pile on posthumous kindnesses, posthumous significances.

From Time Magazine Archive

If they are published in two different parishes the clergyman of one parish must give a certificate of publication, which must be delivered to the clergyman who solemnizes the marriage.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

To those who are beautiful—and poor Peggy had possessed that frequently fatal gift—death in its first stage, bestows an expression of mournful tenderness that softens while it solemnizes the heart.

From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

She grows every leaf, and opens every flower, and solemnizes every bird-marriage, and utters every hymn of praise in the truthful and innate spontaneity of her universal soul.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

They lured religious leaders out of their homes by pretending to need a marriage solemnized.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

Their union and all others that took place at Honeymoon Rock Fest were solemnized by Jeff Yenzer, a Universal Life minister who watched from offstage.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022

A grand boldness solemnized Mälkki’s performances of Russian scores by Tchaikovsky and Scriabin with the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

“It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

From Fox News ● Jul. 4, 2020

Dear and true-hearted friends, the act you have solemnized this day unites you indissolubly body and soul.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

The Scottish Episcopal Church opened the door to solemnizing same-sex marriages in 2017, the Church of Scotland last May.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023

Despite facing an outstanding arrest warrant for solemnizing Arzoo’s marriage, he continued his practice in his ramshackle office above a wholesale rice market in downtown Karachi.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

“I would really love the opportunity to participate in solemnizing Congress,” Barker said in an interview.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2016

At the close of the third act, Polyphontes says to Merope that the altar awaits her, that all is ready for the solemnizing of their marriage and he exits with a “Venez, Madame.”

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

The unity of the race is a great and solemnizing truth.

From The Call of the World or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity by W. E. Doughty