solemnify

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English

Etymology

From solemn +‎ -ify.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make solemn.
    • 2009 March 13, Toby Cecchini, “Mixing Metaphors”, in New York Times:
      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).