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in reply to a message by blaaarg
Sorry this has taken me so long. I wasn't just busy with other things, I was carefully researching.
I wasn't quite sure in which direction you intended to take solemn. Solemn as a funeral, or solemn as a coronation? I'm getting that you're trying to do something that's not Goth but more neoGoth or postGoth. Sorta. Many of your word names seem funereal (Requiem, Angelorum, Goodbye, Remember, Sepulcher, Spiritus, Go-In-The-Wind), while others seem quietly, duskily romantic (Nocturne, Evening, Hart, Twilight, Goldengrove, Lovelonging, Beating-Heart); and some are harder to classify*, but definitely evocative of peaceful, graceful beauty (Glass, Linden, September, Cormorant, Moth, Song-Without-Words, Live-Softly, Reverence, Liquid-Days). So I did what I do, and looked stuff up. Dictionary.com gives several definitions of solemn; and Thesaurus.com is a veritable treasure trove of good suggestions. Then there's always good ol Bartlett's Quotations for inspiration.
You asked what names I would include in a "solemn" namebank. Here are the ideas I've had. I'm not sayin they're all good ideas.
Adore
Æternus
August (month and/or adjective, as opposed to Augustine)
Austere
Autumn (September + the -mn ending)
Blue (especially dark blues are very solemn colors, in my estimation)
Breath-of-Life
Cerulean (from blue; but may be too light and cheerful sounding, idk)
Clement or Clemency (from my Grace and Mercy)
Cloud (for the misty dim darkness evoked by Evening, Twilight, Nocturne and September)
Cobalt (from blue, but less cheerful sounding than Cerulean I think)
Covenant (there are rather religious overtones to your list...)
Deferent (from humble/deferential, but maybe too close to "different" idk)
Dignity or elaborated out to Dignitarius/ium or Dignitaria
Dreamclear (which came to me from Milton and could be "dream clearly" or "clear the dream" and I couldn't decide about a hyphen)
Dusk (as in Evening, Twilight)
Earnest (sorry, better than Ernest imo; solemn = serious = earnest; then there's the importance of being...)
Evensong (Evening + Song-Without-Words)
Favour
Gentle-Breath (like this better than my original Gentle-Breeze; could also be Breath-Gently [not Breathe])
Glory (going in the "solemn as a coronation" direction)
Grace (I know it's done to death but it fits here, imo)
Gravitas (seems an obvious choice)
Hector (one of the Nine Worthies and an incredible death and funeral)
Hemlock (all the trees + my Valerian)
Honor
Humility
Laurel (inspired by Linden / Goldengrove / Olive + Laura)
Love-Is-All or just Love (I'm listening to the Beatles right now)
Magdalene
Magnificat (just... seriously, yeah)
Melancholia (as a girl's name, she could always go by Melanie)
Mercy (we are all in desperate need of it)
Midnight (brought on by Nocturne, Evening and Twilight)
Moon (same as Midnight)
Noble
Oblivia (instead of Olivia :p )
Pale (adjective or verb)
Pensive or maybe just Pense
Pine (the tree or the verb)
Portent
Promise (not religious, unlike Covenant, but still the same idea)
Revere (from your Reverence)
Seraphim (goes with Angelorum and Spiritus)
Seraphina (if I'm gonna suggest Seraphim, you know I'm gonna suggest this)
Serene and Serena (these seem quite necessary)
Serenissima (anyplace I can squeeze this in, I do, but I think it works)
Silence
Solace (seemed like a no-brainer here)
Solène
Solemnis (Latin precursor of solemn)
Solemnus (the -is spelling is the correct one but I like this better)
Solennis (another Latin form of solemnis)
Somber (another no-brainer)
Stark
Sublime (in the same vein but potentially evoking a lighter mood)
Valerian (the Roman emperor [ toward coronation] or the hypnotic** drug [toward funeral])
Willow (goes with Linden, etc and my Laurel)
Winter (led there by September and Autumn and funereal darkness)
*Actually, they're all hard to classify, which makes them particularly delicious and fascinating; I'm just doin my best with what impressions I got.
**The term "hypnotic" actually applies to drugs that put you to sleep; these are not sedatives; sedatives just calm you. You'd think the two terms would be reversed, but no.
Also I had to include these.
http://www.bartleby.com/100/173.250.html
http://www.bartleby.com/100/173.112.html
So, finally, here's my family. I added a son and made some twins.
DH: Frederick August
DW: Miriam Grace Anne
DD: Claudia Solace Dreamclear (Catherine's twin)
DD: Catherine Promise Evensong (Claudia's twin)
DS: Edmund Linden Goldengrove (Justine's twin)
DD: Justine Laurel Go-In-The-Wind (Edmund's twin)
DS: William Earnest Gravitas
DS: Laurence Midnight Magnificat
DD: Adele Willow Nocturne
DS: Roland September Dusk
♥♥♥♥
I wasn't quite sure in which direction you intended to take solemn. Solemn as a funeral, or solemn as a coronation? I'm getting that you're trying to do something that's not Goth but more neoGoth or postGoth. Sorta. Many of your word names seem funereal (Requiem, Angelorum, Goodbye, Remember, Sepulcher, Spiritus, Go-In-The-Wind), while others seem quietly, duskily romantic (Nocturne, Evening, Hart, Twilight, Goldengrove, Lovelonging, Beating-Heart); and some are harder to classify*, but definitely evocative of peaceful, graceful beauty (Glass, Linden, September, Cormorant, Moth, Song-Without-Words, Live-Softly, Reverence, Liquid-Days). So I did what I do, and looked stuff up. Dictionary.com gives several definitions of solemn; and Thesaurus.com is a veritable treasure trove of good suggestions. Then there's always good ol Bartlett's Quotations for inspiration.
You asked what names I would include in a "solemn" namebank. Here are the ideas I've had. I'm not sayin they're all good ideas.
Adore
Æternus
August (month and/or adjective, as opposed to Augustine)
Austere
Autumn (September + the -mn ending)
Blue (especially dark blues are very solemn colors, in my estimation)
Breath-of-Life
Cerulean (from blue; but may be too light and cheerful sounding, idk)
Clement or Clemency (from my Grace and Mercy)
Cloud (for the misty dim darkness evoked by Evening, Twilight, Nocturne and September)
Cobalt (from blue, but less cheerful sounding than Cerulean I think)
Covenant (there are rather religious overtones to your list...)
Deferent (from humble/deferential, but maybe too close to "different" idk)
Dignity or elaborated out to Dignitarius/ium or Dignitaria
Dreamclear (which came to me from Milton and could be "dream clearly" or "clear the dream" and I couldn't decide about a hyphen)
Dusk (as in Evening, Twilight)
Earnest (sorry, better than Ernest imo; solemn = serious = earnest; then there's the importance of being...)
Evensong (Evening + Song-Without-Words)
Favour
Gentle-Breath (like this better than my original Gentle-Breeze; could also be Breath-Gently [not Breathe])
Glory (going in the "solemn as a coronation" direction)
Grace (I know it's done to death but it fits here, imo)
Gravitas (seems an obvious choice)
Hector (one of the Nine Worthies and an incredible death and funeral)
Hemlock (all the trees + my Valerian)
Honor
Humility
Laurel (inspired by Linden / Goldengrove / Olive + Laura)
Love-Is-All or just Love (I'm listening to the Beatles right now)
Magdalene
Magnificat (just... seriously, yeah)
Melancholia (as a girl's name, she could always go by Melanie)
Mercy (we are all in desperate need of it)
Midnight (brought on by Nocturne, Evening and Twilight)
Moon (same as Midnight)
Noble
Oblivia (instead of Olivia :p )
Pale (adjective or verb)
Pensive or maybe just Pense
Pine (the tree or the verb)
Portent
Promise (not religious, unlike Covenant, but still the same idea)
Revere (from your Reverence)
Seraphim (goes with Angelorum and Spiritus)
Seraphina (if I'm gonna suggest Seraphim, you know I'm gonna suggest this)
Serene and Serena (these seem quite necessary)
Serenissima (anyplace I can squeeze this in, I do, but I think it works)
Silence
Solace (seemed like a no-brainer here)
Solène
Solemnis (Latin precursor of solemn)
Solemnus (the -is spelling is the correct one but I like this better)
Solennis (another Latin form of solemnis)
Somber (another no-brainer)
Stark
Sublime (in the same vein but potentially evoking a lighter mood)
Valerian (the Roman emperor [ toward coronation] or the hypnotic** drug [toward funeral])
Willow (goes with Linden, etc and my Laurel)
Winter (led there by September and Autumn and funereal darkness)
*Actually, they're all hard to classify, which makes them particularly delicious and fascinating; I'm just doin my best with what impressions I got.
**The term "hypnotic" actually applies to drugs that put you to sleep; these are not sedatives; sedatives just calm you. You'd think the two terms would be reversed, but no.
Also I had to include these.
http://www.bartleby.com/100/173.250.html
http://www.bartleby.com/100/173.112.html
So, finally, here's my family. I added a son and made some twins.
DH: Frederick August
DW: Miriam Grace Anne
DD: Claudia Solace Dreamclear (Catherine's twin)
DD: Catherine Promise Evensong (Claudia's twin)
DS: Edmund Linden Goldengrove (Justine's twin)
DD: Justine Laurel Go-In-The-Wind (Edmund's twin)
DS: William Earnest Gravitas
DS: Laurence Midnight Magnificat
DD: Adele Willow Nocturne
DS: Roland September Dusk
♥♥♥♥
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