📚 Solemnize, verb.
🔉 /ˈsɒləmnʌɪz/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (with object): Duly perform (a ceremony, especially that of marriage)
❗️ Examples:
1. They needed only to find a priest to solemnize their marriage.
2. The sacred theatre in which rites of initiation were solemnized.
3. Having at length obtained Alice's consent, Talbot needed only to find a priest to solemnize their marriage.
4. A Sikh's marriage should be solemnized by Anand marriage rites.
5. Knowing that he is not authorized by the laws of this state to do so, he performs a marriage ceremony or presumes to solemnize a marriage.
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