consecration
consecration
Definition
con·se·cra·tion (kän′si krā′s̸hən)
noun
- a consecrating or being consecrated
- a ceremony for this
consecration
Synonyms
consecration
n.
consecration
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- bishop: It is possible to remedy the situation without waiting for consecrations of women bishops.
- priest: First, of the entire person, as at the consecration of the priests ( Ex.
- cathedral: Then, four months later, the Tzar was assassinated and the consecration of the Cathedral was postponed indefinitely.
- church: The consecration of a church or monastery was preceded by a long fast.
- woman: Do you really think that delaying the legislative process for permitting the consecration of women, will reverse this process?
- man: And this building up of circumstance was like a consecration of the man, till he seemed to walk in sacrificial filets.
Preposition: as
- bishop: We then get a short account of Brun's education, his consecration as bishop, and execution in 1009.
Converse of object
- receive: The new Bishops will receive Episcopal Consecration at a service in Christ Church, Wallasey later this year.
- follow: New Marston only became a parish in its own right in 1963, following the consecration of St Michael & All Angels Church.
- mean: The first is: obedience to Christ for Gideon, and indeed to us, meant entire consecration.
- express: By one act of consecration of our total selves to God, we can make every subsequent act express that consecration.
Adjective modifier
- episcopal: An even more memorable event was the episcopal consecration of George Hay in 1769.
- entire: The first is: obedience to Christ for Gideon, and indeed to us, meant entire consecration.
- Episcopal: Episcopal consecration confers ' the fullness of the sacrament of orders.
Modifies a noun
- ceremony: A crowd of more than 60,000 stood in front of the church to watch the consecration ceremony on a giant screen.
- cross: There is a good early 19th century gallery, a consecration cross, a rood loft stairway.
- service: His consecration service is at Southwark Cathedral the previous day.
- crosse: There are several Consecration Crosses still to be traced on the North wall, both inside and out.
- ritual: And they were only allowed to do that after a whole series of consecration rituals most of which involved blood.
- date: The consecration date " adds a new element of complexity in the drama of ecclesiology in the United States " .
consecration Quotes
If mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.
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