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solemnify en · VERB

Etymology

From solemn + -ify.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make solemn.
   • The drink dates to 1861, when it was allegedly concocted at Brooks’s, a Whig party hangout in London, to commemorate the death of Queen Victoria’s prince consort Albert (or, more accurately, as a smoke screen to solemnify taking a glass of either stout or Champagne on so mournful an occasion). 2009 March 13, Toby Cecchini, “Mixing Metaphors”, in New York Times:

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