Sentence:  In 1920 , the Lambeth Conference repeated its 1908 condemnation of contraception and issued `` an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception , together with the <WSD>grave</WSD> dangers - physical , moral , and religious - thereby incurred , and against the evils which the extension of such use threaten the race '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises