The Christmas season, with its worship, observances, solemnities, and inhibitions, ends at sunset on Twelfth Night. |
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Lawyers are criticised for insisting on forms and solemnities and actually taking out summonses, taking out orders, recording things properly. |
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These solemnities are so important to the Church that neither marriages nor funerals are celebrated on December 25th and January 1st. |
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But the solemnities of the writing are balanced by some excellent performances and superior production values. |
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This decoration may not be worn except in religious solemnities, processions or pilgrimages, or in the presence of the Sovereign Pontiff. |
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Is it not the love of the country that inspires and prepares these imposing solemnities? |
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France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Egypt, etc. have participated in the solemnities. |
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There the fool enjoyed special license to ridicule pretense and turn upside down social rituals and solemnities, including the dignity of the king himself. |
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Some time ago, an English officer happening to be at Rome observed on the front of the mitre which the Pope wore at one of the solemnities, this inscription: 'Vicarius Filii Dei. |
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Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. |
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Even a writer as steeped in nineteenth-century and early-modern literary solemnities as W. G. Sebald was moved to seed his lamentation-narratives of lost lives, lost nature, lost cityscapes with photographs. |
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Only an ordinary Consistory in which certain solemnities are celebrated, can be public, that is when, in addition to the Cardinals, Prelates, representatives of civil states and other invited persons are admitted. |
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Musical accompaniment following the tradition of the Eastern Aramean Church was limited only to a few metallic percussion instruments, which were used only at a few solemnities, such as the Birth of Christ, or Easter. |
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They partially administered justice in extraordinary cases, and presented games in the Circus Maximus and all public solemnities in honor of the Emperor at their own expense. |
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By that time, the Reformation had already removed the religious solemnities formerly observed and replaced them with programmes of recreational activities. |
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On Sundays and solemnities, three Scripture readings are given. |
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Elaborate solemnities marked the 100th anniversary of the event. |
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