“The solemnity of his expression is notable in his earliest portrait. He was full of reverence, of high desires and yearnings towards the great Unknown.”
“Benjamin Dorrance, president of the association, made a brief but splendid address, dwelling upon the solemnity of the occasion.”
“It is the representation of a village church, the very church where we first learned to feel, and, in part, to understand the solemnity of the Sabbath.”
solemnization
The performance of a ceremony (in an appropriate and solemn manner), such as performing a marriage.