consecrate

“It is defined by our congregants and by the strength of our shared purpose. Our crisis, our grief, our loss also contains within it the seeds of a rebirth that we consecrate this evening.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

Capote perfectly captures the sacramental quality of the holiday—how, through the exhaustive labor of polishing and scrubbing, we consecrate the routine rooms of daily existence into a sanctuary for celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Early converts to what was originally called the Church of Christ, organized in 1830, were encouraged to consecrate all their goods to their new religious community so it could redistribute resources to those in need.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023

This was a phalanx of protection, a way to consecrate and protect the place he was raised.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

At church he has the power to forgive sins and consecrate the host.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

An America that euphemizes this grievance as a matter of “race relations,” and in the process consecrates race as a natural category, is an America that still isn’t confronting its reality.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2016

In her exaltation of women, she purifies and consecrates their desires.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 30, 2015

Male domination in the leadership of the Church of England is coming to an end, as the 500-year-old institution consecrates its first female bishop.

From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015

In its most traditional form, the priest consecrates the bread and wine in a whisper with his back to the congregation: anathema to those who think openness is the spirit of the age.

From Economist ● Dec. 13, 2012

In the exercise of their power and right of self-government, they have committed to one of their fellow citizens a supreme and sacred trust, and he here consecrates himself to their service.

From A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People by Lysander Spooner

She returned to singing in 2001, with Mr. Sellars’s staging of two Bach cantatas as a consecrated meditation on death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

She said the square has been consecrated by dignitaries of all religious denominations in Ganvie, making it a respected place, both spiritual and symbolic.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Presiding over the service was Cardinal Robert Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV and whose devotion to Guadalupe is such that he was consecrated as a bishop 11 years ago this Dec. 12.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Bishop Rachel was consecrated as the 41st Bishop of Gloucester in 2015.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

Clara was the one in whom she confided her most subtle feelings, and to her she consecrated her enormous capacity for sacrifice and veneration.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The Vatican declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests for consecrating four bishops without papal consent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The society sees consecrating new bishops as a necessity, arguing it has only two bishops left.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

In circles that emphasize biblical patriarchy, often rooted in the Calvinist or Reformed wing of Christianity, some have suggested that civil government should have no role in consecrating marriage.

From Salon ● May 26, 2024

In the most sacred part of the service, the Archbishop of Canterbury will anoint the king with oil, consecrating him and setting him apart from his subjects.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

After dinner we all went to the front room where the priest took a small book from his jacket to recite some prayers, consecrating our house and our family.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez