Illustration: Inside a shrine's wooden ceremonial hall, a priest presents a small ceremonial cup to a seated wedding couple. The bride and groom sit upright with lowered eyes and carefully placed hands. Their relatives kneel in ordered rows, watching the slow exchange without moving.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

厳おごそか

ogosoka

solemn, dignified

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは群衆ぐんしゅうに向むかって厳おごそかに語かたりかけた。

    He addressed the crowd gravely.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 厳おごそかな新年しんねんを迎むかえた。

    We had a solemn New Year’s Day.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 日本にっぽんの忘年会ぼうねんかいの歴史れきしは鎌倉時代かまくらじだいもしくは室町時代むろまちじだいに始はじまったと言いわれていて、和歌わかを詠よむなど静しずかで厳おごそかな内容ないようだったとされている。

    It is said that the history of Bonenkai of Japan began in the Kamakura or Muromachi period and it is thought that behavior of people at Bonenkai was quiet and solemn such as composing waka poems.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 厳

  • 厳stern; strictnessOnゲン・ゴンKunおごそか・きびしい・いかめしい

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