Solemnity vs Adoration - What's the difference?
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The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.
* Addison
* J. Edwards
An instance or example of solemn behavior; a rite or ceremony performed with reverence.
* Alexander Pope
* Atterbury
(legal) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
(countable) An act of religious worship.
* a. 1779 ,
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
* 1890,
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
* 1887,
Solemnity is a related term of adoration.
As nouns the difference between solemnity and adoration
is that solemnity is the quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn while adoration is (countable) an act of religious worship.solemnity
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Noun
(solemnities)- the solemnity of a funeral
- The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself in the solemnity of their language.
- These promises were often made with great solemnity and confirmed with an oath.
- Great was the cause; our old solemnities / From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, / But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay / These grateful honours to the god of day.
- The forms and solemnities of the last judgment.
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adoration
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Noun
(en noun)- We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
- ...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.
- He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
