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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

I came here humble, poor, and empty-handed, and he solemnizes my return by offering presents to my mother and my sisters!

From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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 Ringrose, Hyacinthe

A something in a summer's day, As slow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily