a. Also -coly. [Fancifully f. SOLEMN a., after melancholy.] Excessively solemn or serious.
1811. Alexandria Daily Gaz., 18 May, 3/4. One jentimen sit down in my shop, and look so solemncoly, dat I commence de conversation.
1855. Haliburton, Nat. & Hum. Nat., I. ix. 285. Watch his face as he goes along, slowly and solemncoly through the street.
1863. J. Pycroft, Dragons’ Teeth, I. 154. Some dismal heathen deity, to be propitiated only with sighs and groans, pale faces, and ‘solemncholy’ looks.
1894. Meldrum, Margrédel, v. 63. He ’s a very solemncholy youth.
