graveness

“And to every one of us,” said Cheyne, with a curious graveness they afterwards remembered.

The graveness of the situation now dawned upon her mind with a terrible force—Hualcoyotl had chosen her to be his queen.

"The Scarlet Boy is right," he said, with as much graveness as a red-skin can conceive.

The commencement of the master's speech and the graveness of his tone sent a serious thrill through the hearts of the boys.

It is not a time to falter before the graveness of our responsibility and the magnitude of our undertakings.