Top Solemnity Quotes

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in my books. Teachers put grades in my books. Love letters sent in envelopes I sell. Ledgers for accoun...

Solemnity Definition

(n.) A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.

(n.) ceremony adapted to impress with awe.

(n.) Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.

(n.) Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.

(n.) Solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.

(n.) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge o...

His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back into it. He spoke from his marrow. It made what he said a solemn compliment, which she accept...