σεμνό-της, ητος, ἡ,
solemnity, dignity, σεμνότητ᾽ ἔχει σκότος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 486, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.242, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 235b; ἡ σ. τοῦ ῥήματος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τῆς λέξεως] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b35 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ τοῦ τόπου σ. [[ “Milet.” 1(9).368] Refs]; also of persons, seriousness, dignity, ἐπὶ τῆς σ. αὐθάδεις ὑπολαμβάνεσθαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.14, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1391a28, NT.Tit.2.7, NT.1Tim.2.2: in _plural_, σ. οὐκ ἀληθιναὶ ἀλλὰ πεπλασμέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.98. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II of a girl, reserve or shyness, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1344. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]