[f. as prec.] That solemnizes or renders solemn.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 137. The Dancers or Singers, and number of the solemnizing Sacrificers.
1807. C. Simeon, in W. Carus, Life (1847), 218. This had a sweetly solemnizing effect.
1859. K. Cornwallis, New World, I. 228. No solemnising associations seemed to connect themselves with the, to me, hallowed ground.
1871. Mozley, Univ. Serm., v. (1876), 119. This judicial character of war … enables it to produce its solemnising type of character.
