All 7 Uses
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The Age of Innocence
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- Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.†
Chpt 3solemnly = with seriousness and dignity
- Their large solemn house in Madison Avenue was seldom opened, and when they came to town they received in it only their most intimate friends.†
Chpt 6 *solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- The double doors had solemnly reopened and between them appeared Mr. Henry van der Luyden, tall, spare and frock-coated, with faded fair hair, a straight nose like his wife's and the same look of frozen gentleness in eyes that were merely pale grey instead of pale blue.†
Chpt 7solemnly = with seriousness and dignity
- The occasion was a solemn one, and he wondered a little nervously how she would carry it off.†
Chpt 8solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- After the portieres had solemnly closed behind their visitor a silence fell upon the Archer family.†
Chpt 10solemnly = with seriousness and dignity
- Her large pink face was appropriately solemn, and her plum-coloured satin with pale blue side-panels, and blue ostrich plumes in a small satin bonnet, met with general approval; but before she had settled herself with a stately rustle in the pew opposite Mrs. Archer's the spectators were craning their necks to see who was coming after her.†
Chpt 19solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, solemn can mean that something was done with great or appropriate ceremony. It can also be used to describe something as dark or undecorated.