ceremonious

ceremonious

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Synonyymisanakirja

ceremonious

muodollinen, sovinnainen.

Rimmaavat sanat

ceremonious rimmaa näiden kanssa:

lesbous, couscous, lahous, mahous, holhous, nuohous, verhous, lautaverhous, tiiliverhous, ulkoverhous...

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Englannin sanakirja

ceremonious englanniksi

1. Fond of ceremony, ritual or strict etiquette; punctilious

2. 1608, w:Thomas Dekker (writer|Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-Light in The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London, J.M. Dent, 1936, p. 163, https://archive.org/details/gulshornbookbelm00dekk

(..) some Writers do almost nothing contrary to the custome, and some by vertue of that Priviledge, dare doe any thing. I am neither of that first order, nor of this last. The one is too fondly-ceremonious, the other too impudently audacious.

3. 1958, (w), Reflections on the Psalms, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1986, Chapter III, p. 23,

Ancient and oriental cultures are in many ways more conventional, more ceremonious, and more courteous than our own.

4. Characterized by ceremony or rigid formality

5. (RQ:Shakespeare Winter)

O, the sacrifice! / How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly / It was i' the offering!

6. 1924, (w), (w), London: Constable & Co., Chapter 17, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html

Captain Vere advanced to meet him, (..) and interrupting the other's wonted ceremonious salutation, said, "Nay, tell me how it is with yonder man," (..)

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