All 10 Uses of
solemn
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- It seemed to him a solemn time: and he wondered if that was the time when the fellows in Clongowes wore blue coats with brass buttons and yellow waistcoats and caps of rabbitskin and drank beer like grown-up people and kept greyhounds of their own to course the hares with.†
Chpt 1
- There was a skull on the desk and a strange solemn smell in the room like the old leather of chairs.†
Chpt 1 *
- His heart was beating fast on account of the solemn place he was in and the silence of the room: and he looked at the skull and at the rector's kind-looking face.†
Chpt 1
- You will make that solemn promise to God, will you not?†
Chpt 3
- He had heard the names of the passions of love and hate pronounced solemnly on the stage and in the pulpit, had found them set forth solemnly in books and had wondered why his soul was unable to harbour them for any time or to force his lips to utter their names with conviction.†
Chpt 4
- He had heard the names of the passions of love and hate pronounced solemnly on the stage and in the pulpit, had found them set forth solemnly in books and had wondered why his soul was unable to harbour them for any time or to force his lips to utter their names with conviction.†
Chpt 4
- It is a solemn question, Stephen, because on it may depend the salvation of your eternal soul.†
Chpt 4
- —Platinoid, the professor said solemnly, is preferred to German silver because it has a lower coefficient of resistance by changes of temperature.†
Chpt 5
- Cranly pushed solemnly through the throng of students, linking Stephen and Temple like a celebrant attended by his ministers on his way to the altar.†
Chpt 5
- Lynch began to sing softly and solemnly in a deep bass voice: IMPLETA SUNT QUAE CONCINIT DAVID FIDELI CARMINE DICENDO NATIONIBUS REGNAVIT A LIGNO DEUS.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner