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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
consecrate .
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Examples
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Thus the self-gift entailed by celibacy "consecrates" as a space for grace and service what would otherwise be a mere absence, a hole in one's being.
Holy Thursday: God or the Girl? Mike L 2006
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Thus the self-gift entailed by celibacy "consecrates" as a space for grace and service what would otherwise be a mere absence, a hole in one's being.
Archive 2006-04-01 Mike L 2006
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Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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The Appellate Court's decision focused on the dangerous potential of churches to turn public school spaces into sanctuaries for prayer:A worship service is an act of organized religion that consecrates the place in which it is performed, making it a church.
Michele Somerville: Should Churches Be Permitted To Worship On Public School Premises? Michele Somerville 2011
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They honour the dead and they Support Our Troops and they wear red on Fridays and they sneer at those who oppose the war and they imagine that Remembrance Day consecrates that war as well as those who have died, in this conflict and in the ones that have ended.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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It's about a candidate letting her light shine in a way that consecrates their faith, or non-faith as it may be, as being in tune and in touch with the values of the voters.
Burns Strider: Manning Up to Sharing Our Testimony as Democrats Burns Strider 2010
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It's about a candidate letting her light shine in a way that consecrates their faith, or non-faith as it may be, as being in tune and in touch with the values of the voters.
Burns Strider: Manning Up to Sharing Our Testimony as Democrats Burns Strider 2010
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The Appellate Court's decision focused on the dangerous potential of churches to turn public school spaces into sanctuaries for prayer:A worship service is an act of organized religion that consecrates the place in which it is performed, making it a church.
Michele Somerville: Should Churches Be Permitted To Worship On Public School Premises? Michele Somerville 2011
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The Appellate Court's decision focused on the dangerous potential of churches to turn public school spaces into sanctuaries for prayer:A worship service is an act of organized religion that consecrates the place in which it is performed, making it a church.
Michele Somerville: Should Churches Be Permitted To Worship On Public School Premises? Michele Somerville 2011
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Says Barthes, “I am initiated: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love.”
First Love & Other Obsessions Gary Percesepe 2011
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