Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.
Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.
Whereas the accentuated linearism, the angular stylization of the folds, the rhythmical course of the outlining and the solemn frontality conjoined with an air of regality in the pose seem to recall the formal repertory of the Corbolinus Master and his group […]
From Middle English solempne, solemne (“performed with religious ceremony or reverence; devoted to religious observances, sacred; ceremonious, formal; of a vow: made under a religious sanction, bindin...
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