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It seals your commitment to yourself to follow through on this project and solemnizes the importance of this task.

Before You Write « Articles « Literacy News 2009

A civil union both facilitates and solemnizes that relationship.

Joel Judd: Gay Rights - Straight Benefits Joel Judd 2012

Formerly a White House speechwriter for President Bush and currently a pious blot on the op-ed page of The Washington Post, Gerson solemnizes as if composing on a pipe organ, filling the cathedral with his euphonious tone poems to sacrifice and mission.

How Bush Stacks Up Wolcott, James 2008

You can have a church wedding in which your priest solemnizes your church marriage, and then go down to the court house and have a justice of the peace solemnize your civil marriage.

SSM Opponent Predicts End of Western Civilization Due To Sexual Disorganization 2005

"A municipal clerk who issues a marriage license outside of these guidelines and any person who solemnizes such a marriage will be violating state law and subject to penalties in the law."

CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2004 2004

And this is what it actually says: "A municipal clerk who issues a marriage license outside of these guidelines and any person who solemnizes such a marriage would be violating state law and subject to penalties in the law."

CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2004 2004

Odori, on the other hand, is dance that celebrates the vicissitudes of human life; that commemorates joyous occasions and solemnizes sad ones.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

Odori, on the other hand, is dance that celebrates the vicissitudes of human life; that commemorates joyous occasions and solemnizes sad ones.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

Such conference solemnizes and reassures the worker with boys, while to have spent no time as an invited and reverent guest within this sacred precinct is to fail of a priesthood that is profoundly beautiful.

The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben

She grows every leaf, and opens every flower, and solemnizes every bird-marriage, and utters every hymn of praise in the truthful and innate spontaneity of her universal soul.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver