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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

The wording he proposed would make clear that the government cannot force a clergy member to solemnize any marriage in violation of the clergy person’s religious beliefs.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2015

I wonder if we can evolve technologies of looking on the Web that solemnize and sacralize.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2014

It may have been an informal wedlock; as perhaps no one could be found in the colony who would have dared solemnize or record such a marriage.

From Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward

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

Therefore during the five weeks which the Church solemnizes on account of Christ's Resurrection, and on Sundays which commemorate the Resurrection, fasts ought to be appointed.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

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

Obama wasn’t technically wrong to observe that states have broad latitude to fashion their own marriage rules and usually have to recognize marriages solemnized in other states.

From Slate ● May 11, 2012

Then the foolish people, they looke, they stare, they laugh, they fleere, and mywnt upon the formes and pewes to see these goodly pageants solemnized in this sort.

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews

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

The various religious denominations throughout the country are invited to meet in their respective places of worship at that hour for the purpose of solemnizing the occasion with appropriate ceremonies.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

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