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Quote:The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones]



Definitions of: solemn

Definition: Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

Definition: Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.

Definition: Stately; ceremonious; grand.

Definition: Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.

Definition: Real; earnest; downright.

Definition: Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.

Definition: Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

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