† soˈlennity Obs.
Forms: 5 solenite, 5–6 solennite, 6 -itye, 7 -ity.
[a. OF. solennité (= It. solennità), var. of solemnité solemnity.]
Solemnity, formal celebration, etc.
| c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 2753 He wente to that solennite, The temple and that Ioye to se. c 1400 Destr. Troy 9091 Priam prestly gert ordan A gret solenite. Ibid. 9094 With Sacrifice & solenite vnto sere goddes. c 1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 446 Within whiche solennite he made iiij erles. 1565 Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 182 The solennite whereof beginneth in the euening of the xiiij. daye. 1595 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. V. 360 Within the Octaves & solennitye of St. Lawrence. 1647 J. Taylor Lib. Proph. ii. 51 That they should with so great pomp and solennities engage mens perswasions. |
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† solenniˈzation [F.
solennisation], solemnization.
† ˈsolennize v. [F.
solenniser,
It. solennizzare], to solemnize, to perform.
† solenny adv. [
cf. solemny adv.], solemnly.
Obs.| c 1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 71 This is the hyest fest of oure *solennyzacion. |
| c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 345 And in this mone..Thy graffyng good hit is to *solennize. 1588 Greene Perimedes Wks. (Grosart) VII. 42 The marriage of the Gentlemen was sollenised the next weeke after. |
| 1480 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 315 A Masse of the Holi Goste *solenny sayde and song. 1485 Ibid. 319 The Maire..and commynes, bene sworne all and singlerly solenny on the bocke. |