Noun:

சிரத்தை (அ) பக்தி பூர்வமான சடங்கு, பவித்திரமான நிலை,

solemnities's Usage Examples:

About the same time the cycle of paschal solemnities was extended to the ninth week before Easter by the institution of stational masses for Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays.

Thou shalt also in the same operations duly repeat the appropriate conjurations, with all the solemnities marked in the respective Chapters.

He was buried in Westminster Abbey at the foot of Shakespeare's statue with imposing solemnities.

At the close of the jubilee, the special doorway is again built up with appropriate solemnities.

It was thus established that pay, the love of enterprise and the prospect of plunder - if we leave zeal for the sacred cause which they had espoused for the moment out of sight - were quite as useful for the purpose of enlisting troops and keeping them together as the tenure of land and the solemnities of homage and fealty.

Demeter then returns to Olympus, but before her final departure from earth, in token of her gratitude, she instructs the rulers of Eleusis in the art of agriculture and in the solemnities and rites whereby she desires in future to be honoured.

Every great event in the life of a Hindu seems to be regarded as leading up to and bearing on these solemnities.

In 1052 he joined the emperor at Pressburg, and vainly sought to secure the submission of the Hungarians; and at Regensburg, Bamberg and Worms the papal presence was marked by various ecclesiastical solemnities.

Very different were the solemnities which attended the creation of a knight when the complete procedure was observed.

"3 The full solemnities for conferring knighthood seem to have been so largely and so early superseded by the practice of dubbing or giving the accolade alone that in England it became at last restricted to such knights as were made at coronations and some other occasions of state.

Early in the 3rd century Dio Cassius still saw the comitia centuriata meeting with all its old solemnities (Dio Cassius lviii.

Synonyms:

sincerity, solemness, earnestness, staidness, sedateness, serious-mindedness, seriousness,

Antonyms:

insincerity, untruthfulness, frivolous, serious, frivolity,