How To Use Ceremoniousness In A Sentence

Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
Neatness, cleanliness and ceremoniousness are other ubiquitous compulsive character traits.
Hugh, speaking now with an elaborate ceremoniousness of utterance significant of a struggle to suppress violent emotion. The Brigade Commander
To be sure, there was much ceremoniousness and the superficiality that went with it.
They invite one another to play by a certain ceremoniousness of attitude and gesture.

Mishka had told him to expect ceremoniousness but to be at ease because no one awaited similar actions from a foreign guest. Hokas Pokas
Then, forgetting all his politeness, all his ceremoniousness, all his Japanesery, he takes her by the hand, forces her to rise, to stand in the dying daylight, to let herself be seen. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The last seven words contradict the ceremoniousness of what goes before: Lancelot is holding himself in and, as the strongest warrior present at the scene, daring anyone to contradict him. Arthurian Glories Renewed
Public ceremonial would be supplanted by royal ceremoniousness.
And, finally, such semi-civilised life abounds in a weary ceremoniousness. First footsteps in East Africa
But if you left undone anything you wished to do, waiting for my opinion, and thinking your grief would then be lighter, be it without ceremoniousness or superstition, both which things are indeed foreign to your character. Plutarch's Morals
The multitude of figures restrained by the strict frames of architecture emphasize the rigid ceremoniousness of the scene.
But their austerity and ceremoniousness are skin-deep. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Used as he was to acting as a "true speech" interpreter, the prospect of so much ceremoniousness in which he himself would be expected to play a central and imaginative part made him nervous. Between Planets