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SOLEMNLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a grave and sedate manner
Example:
the judge sat there solemnly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
solemn (dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises)
Context examples:
A measured step was heard upon the stairs, and a moment later a stout, tall, grey-whiskered and solemnly respectable person was ushered into the room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Surrounded by the rosy light, and standing high upon the deck, apart together, she clinging to him, and he holding her, they solemnly passed away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“What is the meaning of it, Watson?” said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am the law!”—nodding his head solemnly.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dorothy now took Toto up solemnly in her arms, and having said one last good-bye she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying: Take me home to Aunt Em!
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Maria considered solemnly for a space.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Farewell, then,” said the old man solemnly.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He forgot that she had made life a burden to him, and when she disported herself around him he responded solemnly, striving to be playful and becoming no more than ridiculous.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mrs Musgrove protests solemnly that she knew nothing of the matter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
This I solemnly declare to be a most infamous falsehood, without any grounds, further than that her grace was pleased to treat me with all innocent marks of freedom and friendship.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
