solemnisation

1. 1.

   the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

   “the celebration of marriage”

   Synonymscelebrationsolemnization

   Broaderritual

Other forms of solemnisation

plural

solemnisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about solemnisation

What does solemnisation mean?

solemnisation means "the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual".

How many syllables are in solemnisation?

solemnisation has 6 syllables: so-lem-ni-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for solemnisation?

Close synonyms include celebration, solemnization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is solemnisation a common word?

solemnisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.