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Definition
in a very serious (and often dignified) manner
- You can't have forgotten that you assured me most solemnly that nothing in the world would induce you to send it to any exhibition.Chapter 9 (58% in)
- The men laughed, and Mr. Chapman got up solemnly from the foot of the table and came up to the top.Chapter 15 (63% in)
- If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.Chapter 19 (71% in)
There are no more uses of "solemn" in The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version.
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