The Olympics have been used before to solemnize a nation's vision of itself.
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Patrick also dramatized that first inauguration by using a slave ship Bible to solemnize his oath.
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The Rev. Peter Karloutsos will solemnize their marriage.
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In about an hour, they'd have a judge solemnize their vows.
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If we properly celebrate our many lettuce leaves, shouldn't we similarly solemnize our multiple religious traditions?
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The effect will be to solemnize arbitration created restrictions, placing them further away from wiki-like decision making process, and further into law.
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Deacons may baptise and in some dioceses are granted licences to solemnize matrimony, usually under the instruction of their parish priest and bishop.
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After his retirement, Sarris continued to periodically solemnize non-Orthodox marriages, saying he felt a religious duty to marry couples who might not feel at home in the church.
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Like the tradition of the time, Sitara was to be married when she was a small girl of eight, and her child bridegroom's family wanted to solemnize the marriage.
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Observe or perform with dignity or gravity; "The King solemnized this day of morning"
Perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies
Make solemn and grave; "This ceremony solemnized our hearts"
(solemnization) celebration: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
(Solemnization) Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found. ...
To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act