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What does solemnity mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.
  2. An instance or example of solemn behavior; a rite or ceremony performed with reverence.
  3. (law) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
  4. (obsolete) A celebration or festivity.
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As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity.
A person who can feel neither the solemnity nor the awesomeness of nature lacks in our eyes the necessary sense of his own limitations.
Suddenly the solemnity of the occasion and the majesty of its setting overcame everyone and reverential silence descended.
They watched, for once, with due solemnity as she picked up her phone, rang Greg's office, and found he wasn't in.
God can be served not only in the solemnity of a Yom Kippur, but also in the revelry of a Purim.
There's a melancholy tone to the proceedings, a funeral solemnity, in what is supposed to be a summer sci-fi action blockbuster.

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