graveness

Police earlier sought the arrest warrant, citing the graveness of the crime and a possibility the man may flee, according to Daegu police.

"His sobriety, his graveness, his hallowedness, is so foreign to our modern sensibilities — but that's the point. That is the precise point."

“The graveness of the visage,” The Sydney Gazette wrote in 1803, “would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity.”

They were both laughing, and then the laughter stilled, gave way to a new, strange graveness, a slippery joining.

"The graveness of such an incident was that it was the first of its kind and it breaks all diplomatic and security norms," the group said in a statement.