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n. - A trait of dignified seriousness.

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  • The other older children when they were singing "We are the World" went from the solemness (ph) to the joyfulness.
  • The darkness, the grief of the angels and the spent posture of Jesus' body all remind me of the solemness of what that moment must have been like.
  • Obama reflected on Kennedy's presence at the passage of the Voting Rights Act and suggested that while the event was celebratory, concern for the senator necessarily cast an...
  • Obama reflected on Kennedy\'s presence at the passage of the Voting Rights Act and suggested that while the event was celebratory, concern for the senator necessarily cast an...
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