solemnify

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verb

To make solemn.

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Meanings

verbsolemnify (third-person singular simple present solemnifies, present participle solemnifying, simple past and past participle solemnified)

present singular third person solemnifies · participle present solemnifying · participle past solemnified · past solemnified

  1. transitiveTo make solemn.

    The drink dates to 1861, when it was allegedly concocted at Brooks’s, a Whig party hangout in London, to commemorate the death of Queen Victoria’s prince consort Albert (or, more accurately, as a smoke screen to solemnify taking a glass of either stout or Champagne on so mournful an occasion).

    2009 March 13, Toby Cecchini, “Mixing Metaphors”, in New York Times

Origin

From solemn + -ify.

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Cite this entry
APA

solemnify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/solemnify

MLA

“solemnify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/solemnify. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “solemnify,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/solemnify.

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