Adjective : He greeted his rival with a ceremonious display of friendship. ,a ceremonious reception. From Dictionary.com.
But their austerity and ceremoniousness are skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Hugh, speaking now with an elaborate ceremoniousness of utterance significant of a struggle to suppress violent emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
Mishka had told him to expect ceremoniousness but to be at ease because no one awaited similar actions from a foreign guest. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Then, forgetting all his politeness, all his ceremoniousness, all his Japanesery, he takes her by the hand, forces her to rise, to stand in the dying daylight, to let herself be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then he rose, and, stretching himself to his full height, saluted Amos with a bow of exaggerated ceremoniousness, and, turning on his heel, was soon hidden from view by the trees of the wood. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
Used as he was to acting as a "true speech" interpreter, the prospect of so much ceremoniousness in which he himself would be expected to play a central and imaginative part made him nervous. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
He sat down beside her with a solemn ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
But they are fond of ceremoniousness beyond most men. From Wordnik.com. [Quaker Hill A Sociological Study] Reference
The ceremoniousness of social demeanour was diminished. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
There is a ceremoniousness in the mental habits of these ancients. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
It was several months since she had attired herself with ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
It has a leisurely ceremoniousness, an ease that could exist nowhere else. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference
And, finally, such semi-civilised life abounds in a weary ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
She said that his voice had a fruity ceremoniousness, and I wish I could have heard it. From Wordnik.com. [Marge Askinforit] Reference
He was courteous, with a sort of condensed courtesy -- the shorthand of ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
They stepped back at this, and raised again their hands to their hats with marked ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Set of Six] Reference
Approaching the new sibyl with the same ceremoniousness, he repeated the same words in the same precise tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
He swung his broad-brimmed hat from his head, and bent his body with the ceremoniousness of the country ball-room. From Wordnik.com. [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference
Jonathan, who was engaged in conversation with Blueskin, instantly arose, and bowed with cringing ceremoniousness to the knight. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference
Such sweetness in his home life, such nobility, such gentle, old-fashioned ceremoniousness, such delightful simplicity of manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference
That strange ceremoniousness, too, at other times evinced, seemed not uncharacteristic of one playing a part above his real level. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
Used to making "a good cup of tea" in an ordinary way, the doing it with this formal ceremoniousness was only a matter of revision. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
An instant later the door was dragged open, and La Boulaye stood bowing in the rain with mock ceremoniousness and a very contemptuous smile on his stern mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
The Duke is a very well-informed man, has read much, and remembers what he has read; and the ceremoniousness of his manners, with which some people find fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler in France] Reference
I was much amused with this logical ceremoniousness, by which a man is not to say that he rejects any thing so conditioned, but only that he does not receive it. From Wordnik.com. [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference
Even her very manner was reverting to that good humored tone of frank camaraderie that the unavoidable ceremoniousness of the last fortnight had kept in subjection. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Immortals] Reference
When our growing sense of priggish decorum and our dishonest ceremoniousness of speech made the jester a figure no longer possible, we substituted for him the poet-laureate!. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
Another helper in the circulation of the Gospel I found in an aged professor of music, who, with much stiffness and ceremoniousness, united much that was excellent and admirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
Angels before this have been entertained as strangers, says the Good Book; and that, I take it, is your authority for this ceremoniousness which else were but lip-service and Papist airs. From Wordnik.com. [Two Men of Sandy Bar; a drama] Reference
There was a stiff and stately grace in her movements, a slow ceremoniousness, in her politeness to her guests, which seemed to harmonize with the seventeenth-century setting of the moat-house garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
But instead of reuniting them, the prettier Mrs. Tucker became, the more distant and reserved grew the men, until Don Jose rose before the usual hour, and with more than usual ceremoniousness departed. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
"Mr." accorded him by Mr. Tyler, whose plain and simple ways, not much different now from those of his plantation life, were in marked contrast to the ceremoniousness of the Van Buren administration, which. From Wordnik.com. [54-40 or Fight] Reference
"Now look here, my friends," said John Crondall, "this is no time for ceremoniousness, apologies, and the rest of it, and I'm not going to indulge in any. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
The man had no ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
Dragon was a temple of ceremoniousness. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
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